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SURVEYING JOHORE,
IMPRESSIONS OF AN R. E. OFFICER.
DIFFERENT COASTS.
Capt. 3. W. Kliby, R., gave a capital lecture to the Royal Googra-
phical Society recently (says "The Field") describing the stats of Johore. He was out there in the years 1923-26 in command of a Colonial Survey Section, 'charged with the duty of making a'topo-. graphical raap of South Joharo.
As elsewhere in the peninsula (he stated) the east coast is very different from the West. On the cast la'a succession of beautiful andy bays, broken by rocky, wooded headlands; the rocks are red, the sen dashea ugainst them in fouring breakers, and in many places Capt. Kirby was strongly reminded of the Devon coast an a
ON BAD GIRLS.
..
YOU MUST NOT CALL THEM GOOD.
CULT OF WICKEDNESS.
hardly
cestors.
modern
་
.
ALBERT HALL.
SEATHOLDERS' FEARS FOR
FUTURE."
"NIGHT CLUB—OR WORSE.”
THE CHINA MAIL,
HUMAN EYESIGHT.
DOCTOR'S REMARKABLE
DEDUCTION.
yet!
HIS LAST FRAUD.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1928.
WOMAN SMOKER.
CRIMINAL WHO POSED AS A DOCTOR.
CHICAGO WOMEN BAN MISS *ROYDEN.
POISON FOR SUICIDE..
LUNCHEON CANCELLED.
New York-Chicago, a
city
c.
AMERICAN CRIME.
ROLES OF JUDGES AND POLICE.
METHODS CRITICISED.
Every
THE VISION OF FISH.
That the proxies from scatholders
New York. Why is it that There is a considerable cult of
New York.-"Man has not ||would defeat a resolution of the
"A story without any redeeming fish," feature" was the comment of the notorious for its gunmen and boot-America, where there is less actual wickedness nowadays. You would council of the Royal Albert Hall completely ceased being s
dare call a girl "good" to her face. It might Corporation for adding five nomi- This is the assertion of Dr. Faigene Acting Coroner for Birmingham leggers, is to be deprived of a re- poverty than in any country in the nated members to the council, in Wiseman, of Buffalo, president of after hearing the evidence rogard-ligious message from Miss Maude world, compares so unfavourably very possibly be true, but the poor
with every other civilised" country thing would be dreadfully morti- accordance with the wishes of the the American Academy of Op ing the death of an ex-convict who Royden, the London preacher, be-
Select Committes of the House of tometry, and he gave the statement at the time of his suicide was want cause she smokes cigarettes.
With the utmost politeness, in crimes of violence? as an explanation that near-sighted by the police in connection with fled,
Lords, was stated by Sir William It is at least na difficult to be Bull, M.F., at a special general edness, or myopla, was widely pre- sundry offences. The man, Harold members of the Women's Home time there is a new record for very bad as to be fairly good for a
18 to be fals-bringing meeting of the corporation at the valeat amongst the human species. Miflin, otherwise Harold Malcolm Missionary Society of the Methodist murder established by some city in Graham, otherwise John Cameron, Church in the metropolis of the the United States this question is girl with How many of these modern mald-meeting should be adjourned Bo
Albert Hall. He suggested that the He said:--
We have found that a great pro-of no fixed abode, described as O Middle West cancelled. their lun
raised and discussed, and explana of myopia are draughtsman, was found ens strive after wickedness--and that the facts for and against the portion of cases
uncon-cheon engagement. with Mtions are given which apparently only achieve bad atyle? It is
proposals could be circulated to the caused, by the fact that the eyes sciaus in his bedroom at the Grand Royden on learning of her bring conviction to few. Accord- naturally diverage to the right and Hotel, Birmingham: He died later quaintance with My Lady Nicotine. ing to some investigators, the "for- pathetic to think what a large per- seatholders.
of looking in hospital from barbitone poison- In a letter on their behalf, Maigners," with their low ideale, are centage of them are no worse, in-
Ten members voted for the ad- to the left instead
Dan B. Brummitt says: "Smoking is responsible, but this charge has side than their demure female an Journment and ton against, and the straight ahead. The inner muscles ing.
Eleanor Miffin
Identified the not a general practice in this coun-never been satisfactorily proved. That it is unshockable is one of casting vote in favour of the ad- and restore a parallelism of the body as that of her husband, who try, and it is not done at all by the Other experts maintain that vast
chairman (Earl Howe) gave his of the eye, in trying to correct this
married to her in 1912. He women of our churches." the proudest boasts of modern journment, which was fixed for a vision of the two eyes, are subject was
numbers of people in the United eed to a strain which produces told her he had been in the Army, Miss Royden, who is reputed to States are still in the pioneer or ignorance. When someone says, as fortnight.
The Select Committee suggested nearsightedeness. Prismatic lenses also that he had been adopted by smoke cigarettes because she frontier stage of development, and a preliminary to an anecdote, "I hope you're not easily shocked?" that the British Museum, the Board have now beer developed which re- wealthy people and had a fixed in- joys them and because they seem to that they are not as yet permeated After the marriage he reat her nervas, has acquiesced in with the educational and spiritus! the addresses never contents her of Education, the Imperial College store this parallelism while they come. Sparkling sunny day. But the aclf with a mere "Not so very," or of Science, the Royal College of allow the eyes to remain in their worked as a draughtsman for a the decision of the Chicago women, influences of modern civilisation. beauty is not without its terrible "Well, suppose you risk it. No, Music, and the Royal Commission natural, slightly divergent, poal-time, but within six months left though she regrets it. "I do not A third section maintains that whe-crime is a natural sequence to side. Nearly everywhere, at nearly she laughs heartily and replies, for the Exhibition of 1851 should tion. Many cases of myopia have her. She heard that he went to she writes, "cere a button
each nominate a member of the heen reduced and many others Glasgow, and that subsequently he ther or not I smoke while in the great wealth and luxury, and that. all seasons of the year, landing is "Why, I'm never shocked!"
Girls start in this fashion at council.
have bean entirely cured by this was convicted for some crime. She United States, but I certainly do in a country where more temptation diflicult and dangerous, if not im-
You may often... Speaking against the proposals, simple method.
never saw him again alive. She not concede that it is a matter of is offered to the professional thug possible. Ports are few and small, quite an early age.
hear a sweet, silly, innocent little Mr. Will Pearson said it was "the | Many lower animals, such as in- had made inquiries from time to religious importance.”-
and gangster than anywhere else and outside them there are scarcely
Mias Royden has 150 engage-the number of lawless, will, of On the other debutante get up in slavish immita- thin end of the wedge to make the sects and birds, have vision incem time, and heard he was in differ- uny inhabitants. hand the western side of Johore is tion of a chorus girl, encouraging hall a national institution," and parably keener than that of man. ent prisons, and about seven years ments in this country. She is to course, be proportionately great. in Whatever the reason may be, it some quite nice young man to tell there was a good deal of opposition For example, to the mosquito, man age he wrote to her from Park- lecture before church wemen dow-lying and muddy, and. the sea
Inhurst Prison.
New York, Detroit, and Philadel-seems difficult to explain that in is shallow for some distance from her some not quite nice story. to the proposals by sestholders, glows like a burning coal.
A detective sergeant who took|phia who apparently agree with her Chicago, where crime is a highly the actual coastline.. Along the When she hears the story, either among whom the majority present man's development from the lower
species the eyes have graually coma the man's finger prints produced a that cigarettes do not constitute aĵorganised industry, they have more whole length of this western shore she does not understand that there were women,
to the front from their position at report from Scotland Yard stating roligious issue. -
murders in a week than London in there is a belt of land from two to is anything wrong with it, or sho
the side of the head, as in the fish, that they were identical with those
Ryear!. five miles wide which is highly is heartily ashamed of not quite lik
and with this has come a great im- of a man convicted in March, 1924, cultivated and thickly inhabited.ing it, or she considers proudly that
provement-parallel vision of, both under the name of Harold Malcolm The land is slowly but constantly she is going up in the world, and
eyes. This recently acquired bine-Graham. He had been convicted a cular single vision possesses the number of times since 1918 in dif- encroaching on the sea, and villages after all it must be all right as he is a friend of Angela's. In any built near the mouths of the rivers
me-ferent parts of England and Scot chanisms.
larid under various names.
the bill
a few years ago now lie some way case, she responds with a bright garding the hall and the recom- incompleteness of most new.
back from the coast.
Big Game.
giggle. He, being too modern to know better, tells her another.
·
the seat-holders were
Dr. Wiseman added that myopła was increasing because modern
50 Veronal Tablets. Witness related how Mifin took civilisation necessitated close ap- pileation, as in reading and handla room at the Grand Hotel in the work, and so marked was this ten-Street, Peston," and sont a page to name of John Cameron, Park
dency that some persons had even
HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS.
"Disgrace to Civilisation." February 11, 1928.
One encouraging feature of the Mr. and Mrs. W. Armstrong. situation is the determination of N. C. Berry, G. L. Blum, W. Fed in various ways, and notably in Messrs. R. J. Bi beck, J. B. Baker, public-spirited citizens as express. Barnes, C. F. Bird, G. M. Bridge the establishment in 1925 of a fard, Mra, Martin Bekina.
Dr. and Mra. C. W. Chockson, Mr. National Crime Commission to |stimulate public interest and action in the restoration of respect for E. F. Carmer
Mrs. M. J. Elliott. F. M. Genaburger, Miss T. Garned, performance of its fundamental Mesara, N. Gell, G. J. Gardner, the authority of the State in the predicted that eventually the hu- various chemists with a prescrip- Messrs. A. F. Henry, Fred A. duty of protecting the persons and man race would be cyclopean and
tion. This, was signed "J. Hill, F. H. Hill, E. Hunt, C. A. property of Its citizens. This Com- have only one eye, and that in the Cameron, M.D.," and asked for fifty Henderson, W. Hall, A. J. P. Heard, mission is handicapped, because out graina R. J. Harrison, W, M. Haimovitch, of forty-eight States in America, chemist supplied J. P. Hunt, Capt. T. P. Hall, Lt-Colonly fifteen make any pretence of
middle of the forehead.
One
of five
tablets of 'bar-
Messrs. J. Petrequin, H. S. administration of criminal law-in Prophet, Miss Helen M. Pond, Mr. the United States is a disgrace to and Mrs. H. H. Priestley.
civilisation," that the trial of a Messrs. T. Carr Ramsay, A. U. criminal seems like a game of |chance, with all the odds in favour Mesars. Jaa. F. Stevens, Jr., O. G. of the criminal, and "if he escapas Steen, Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Stenberg, he seems to have the sympathy of Mr. and Mrs. D. Sunty, Miss A. Ma sporting public." Mr. Charles Sinclair.
E. Hughes, former Secretary of State and an ex-Associate Justice
History of Bill. Earl Howe, who presided, ex- plained at the beginning of
passed by Parlament last year re- meeting, the history of the
mendations of the Committee with relation to the nominated members. He said this was opposed by their counsel on the ground that it was Rapid as the development of
An unnecessary interference with Johore has been since the introduc- There is a sort of dismal humour the rights of the council, but the tion of rubber planting, the culti- about the sight of Nature's Good Committee insisted upon it. vated aren is still barely one- Little Girls trying to be rakish. They had accepted the bill and fourth of the whole, and Johore re- They are not vicious, only silly.
draft supplementary charter, mains, for the most part, a wild As-to-the older girls, they all which was necessary because all
Big game bark jungle-clad country.
with
veronal tablets energy, the recommandations had no small
been animals include elephant, rhino- but comparatively few
strength. of prepared, and also a resolution to
With ceros, seladang, tiger, panther, and them have much bite. Their con-enable the five additional members
two tablets. Another, who at first J. Hodsol, Miss V. F. Harvey.
Mr. J. E. Joseph, Mrs. Jobson, securing crime statistics. deer of various species; but they versation is as naughty as per-te come on to the council.
demurred, received a note from
Mr. H. A. Keller. Mr. and Mrs, C. thirty-three States negligent of an are rarely seen or heard. During severance can make it They dis- They hoped that those would be the seatholders by suggesting that "Cameron" saying he practised at Kemmes.
elementary duty, it is commented, the three years that he spent in the cuss gloriously subjects that were passed unanimously, because its member of the council in later Derby and Sheffield, and that it was
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Leeda, Miss nevertheless, that significant facts are furnished by the remaining country, mostly in the jungle, Capt. taboo to the last generation. Some was certain if they were not passed years might not be a proper person very unusual for a doctor's pre- E. Linley. Kirby did not catch sight of any are not without wit and contrive to the best interests of the corporation that the work of the council could comply," the note ended. Coming McHardy, Thos. McKnight,
to manage the hall. He believed
scriptions to be ignored. "Please Messrs. Fred B. Marshall, G. N. fifteen to justify intelligent conclu- of the larger animals, though one to be very amusing.
C. B. siene and decisive action in the would be seriously prejudleed. He be done better if the number were night a tiger prowled about his tent
spec- believed In general, however, the
to the conclusion that it was a Marrison, Col. W. J. McElhenny, way of reform,
These conclusfond, as stated by and once he heard an elephant pass tacle of a lot of God's creatures really determined once and for all reduced. If the present proposal genuine doctor's prescription, the Mrs. MacFle.
Mcsers. L. D. O'Bryan and F. S. Chief Justice Taft, are, that the passed the number would be chemist supplied a bottle contain- within few yards. With the sitting round a dinner table and to try to put this noble hall on a
Odum. exception of the tiger, game in trying to think of remarks about sound basis. The council had done twenty-four, and that was too large, ing twenty-five Johore is preserved. Game licences bedrooms is something of an anes-all in their power to effect econo-He also thought that the new coun- bitone, which was the equivalent of can be obtained, but they are not there. Yet most of them are prob-mies and attract business wherever illors would be of no practical use veronal. The bottle was, labelled cheap. Big game shooting requires ably very good sorta, even if
the possible. They should do well to as a preventive against the Albert
"poleon." Ten grains, or two tablets, WAA the maximum Reid. considerable time, and coolies are indles are painted like pierrota and remember that in this country Par- Hall being turned into a night club, a gambling den, or worss. (Laugh- expensive and ineficient. The have not sufficient imagination to lament was aupreme, as Was
does. At the request of ter). Malay is no ablkari, and a sports think for themselves. Tell them shown only a few weeks ago.
Two male seatholders supported "Cameron," who said he thought man who has tracked his quarry they are little devils and they will
he had pneumonia, one, powdered for a whole day and made his kill
Mr. Will Pearson, said the hall Earl Howe said that the Select tablet in milk was given to him. late in the evening must generally be prepared to akin it with his own there are plenty of delightful crea privately owned, and to nominate tional members would strengthen in
I do not, of course, deny that was strictly private property and Committee thought that the addi-Later the bottle was found under
his bed empty.
The Acting Coroner (Mr. D. tures who still temper charm with those five members was the thin overy way the position of the Royal The best method of securing a discretion. I certainly do not deny end of the wedge towards its Albert Hall as regards the coed was not relieved by any redeem- Cuthberton) said the story reveal- tiger is to make friends with the that this age has its fair allowance nationalisation. No public fund munity as a whole. That was their manager of a rubber estate when of real vice, quite apart from the had been given to it at all as far sole reason for their recommenda wife some six months or less after other offences which he was sup-life itself is in question. There is
ing feature. The man desurted his he is suffering from the raids of a blatant cases of newspaper notorie-as he knew. He appreciated that tlon. man-eater, If a coolic is taken ty. There are, without doubt, the council felt themselves morally Mr. C. B. Cochran said it was marriage, and at a time when she posed to have committed. He also while tapping rubber the whole of sufficiency of young women who bound to support these proposals, delnitely impressed upon him by was expecting a child. There appeared to be in great straits for a manifest failure to secure through the tappers will strike, till either achieve this sought-for wickedness but he was antagonistic to the the Select Committee that the cords showed that from 1918 to want of money. "So I suppose he an adequate administration of our lay and appropriate the tiger is killed or a large gang without the faintest effort. But House of Lords for having put for Albert Hall must be regarded as 1924, at all events, he was convict thought he might be better off in criminal of men is employed to beat gongs contest that it is not these so much ward this useless proposal. Only something more than a private ed for various forms of fraud, in the next world than in this,' added punishment of crime the deterrent. and blow trumpets. The Malays as the great multitude of their about half a dozen out of 895 sent-place of entertainment. There cluding forgery. He was only re- the Coroner, "and he took his life effects which are in a large measure.
the object of these laws.". believe that a man is never taken crude and comparatively innocuous holders knew what the proposal were certain obligations in connec- leased on license in September, in this way." if he is looking in the direction of disciples who catch the eye and ex-meant,
A verdit of suicide was recorded, He thought that the new tion with it, and the Committee after serving four years' penal ser the tiger, so when they are tapping cite so much unfavourable notice members, should take some part in thought that their proposal would vitude. At the time of his death the coroner being of opinion that they wear masks on the backs of The minority to whom badness is the liability of the hail, and that increase the prestige of the Albert he was wanted by the police for there was not suficient evidence to their heads in the hops of deceiv-natural do it so much more
falling to report and for sundry show the state of the man's mind. ing any man-cater that may stalk fully. them. Both tiger,and crocodile aro Immorality is not really the cry-į: treated as vermin, and rewards are ing evil of society. Our curse to offered for their .capture, dead or day is more the lesser nuisance of alivo. A live tiger is worth $125, vulgarity. "Daily Mail." and a dead one $75. The digging of game pits is forbidden in some districts, the penalty for infringe- ment of the law being a fine of $15. On one occasion a Chinaman was solemnly paid $125 reward for a tiger taken alive, less $15 fine for digging the pit in which the animal was trapped. The police usually cut a circular patch out of the shoulder of the skin in order to
hands.
•
adore you,
Private Properly.
Mr. Pearson,
grace-the House of Lords cast a slur on Hall.
NEW PENSIONS..
£225,000 MORE TO BE PAID WEEKLY.
All necessary arrangements have
prevent repeat claims to the re- been made for the payment at post- ward, and an enterprising Chinese offices throughout Great Britain of firm tried to start a new form of old-age pensions to insured per- invisible mending by inserting Bone who have attained the age of
patches to match!
"Aircraft as an Aid to Surveying.
65. An estimate based on official figures shows that the amount of additional money to be disbursed
Capt. Kirby was fortunate in will be round about £225,000 week having aircraft to assist him in his ly, and this may be accounted the task. Technically they were not of greatest new expenditure on pen-| much assistance to him in the con-gions since the State, nearly twenty struction of his topographical map; years ago, first began to provide e In a country so thickly covered sistance for aged persons. with vegetation as Johore is, alt
The Prime Minister, in a letter to
photographa do not show the ground the Unionist candidate at North features and land form. On the
ampton, draws attention to the other hand aircraft were of very great help to him both as a speedy great army of working men and wo means of communication, enabling the more serious misfortunes of men who are to-day insured against him to reach quickly from his base any point in the field, and aв s lfo.Expenditure by the State on means of reconnoitring the country social services now represente un- nhoud of his field parties.
questionably. an enormous annual
In the old days a surveyor had commitment, and the Contributory to try to gauge the conditions Fensions Act alone involved a cost ahead from hilltops, or by trekking to the Exchequer during the last over the country laboriously on financial year. of £5,700,000. It is foot. By Balling over it in an aero estimated that this sum will rise to plang he can see at once the £6,400,000 in 1935 and 1986, and general lie of the mountains, drain that when the first ten years of the age system, communications etc, operation of the measure have been and can thus plan out the work for completed the State will have been the land partles' not only more ex- called upon to contribute a total peditiously, but more efficiently sum of just over £57,000,000 DRES
PROHIBITED
13
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Messrs. G. Timmerman, Tyler, E. F. Thorpe,
Major and Mrs. Waner, Mr.
Mr. E. A. Yates.
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Gof the Supreme Court, a most.
eminent lawyer whose name is nationally known and respected, did. not hesitate to say in an address to the American Bar Association that "America's capacity to protect
The Law's Delays.
It cannot be doubted that in due course public opinion will finally secure the necessary reforms, but to date the movement is only in the nursery stage., Justice Cropsey, of the Supreme Court of New York, [declared not long ago that the de-:-
lay in administering Justice-pro- vided the criminal, often allowed out on ball, does not escape arraign- ment is due not to the courts be- ing overworked, but to the fact that judges now on the bench, with easy |hours and long holidays, do not work hard enought With a popu lation of twelve millions New York Stata has more than one hundred judges, 'of whom forty-eight sit in
New York City. England, with a population of thirty-eight millions; disposes of similar business with thirty-three Judges. If England had judges in the ratio of New York State she would have three hundred
| instead of thirty-three. Inciden- tally it may be said that one out of every eleven persons in America is n Federal, State, county; or city employee or otherwise living on the public funds.
The criticism which is heard in. America on every side to-day ex- tends not only to the delays in jus- |tico, inadequacies of sentence, and to lawyers for their methods of conducting big cases-nobody here. doubts that they enjoy extra- ordinary latitude compared, with Old Bálley procedure but also to: the American pollen system, which is accused of inordinate corrup tion. Here, as elsewhere, we have good police and bad police, but in the denunciation of the latter as the accomplices of crime, and not infrequently the beneficiaries of crime, it is the good as well as the bad who suffer Reform the American police system, it is urged, and you will automatically reduen fcrime.