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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1931.
OVER-POPULATED
WORLD.
Sir A. Thomson and Chances of Survival
SCIENCE THE HOPE FOR FUTURE
Four great factors which are re- tarding the progress of the human race were referred to by Professor
PEACE PRESERVATION HOW A COBRA TAKES
L
ORDINANCE, 1886.
Amendment.
An Ordinance to amend the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and 'consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
This Ordinance may be cited as the Pence Preservation Amendment Ordinance, 1981,
Sir Arthur Thomson when, in his final address, to the British Social Hygiene Council, he spoke of the fature prospects for the develop- "I think that ment of mankind. the first great dificulty which
Section 14 of the Peace Preserva- hinders progress from coming more quickly," he said, "is that the tion Ordinance, 1886, is amended The by the addition after the word world is becoming too full. total increase of the world's popu- "Ordinance" at the end thereof of ¡lation is not less than twelve the following words:--- millions every year, and probably fourteen. millions. If that con- tinues it will soon become neces Kiry to put up notices saying Some cal. 'Standing room only.' culators have estimated that in the time of the great-great-grand- children of Americans now living.
America will be absolutely full, and will be on the verge of a de-, bucle too hurrible to think of."
under this Ordinance, or within
the period of five days before the date of any such proclamation, if done in good faith, and done or
REVENGE.
Child Bitten in More Than Fifty Places.
AN ACT OF VENGEANCE.
Bitten in more than fifty dif- ferent places on the feet on Sun- day and again on the head on Tuesday by a cobra which the villagers believe to be a rein- carnation of a dead enemy of the family, a child of three died on Wednesday, says a Retnapura the Ceylon correspondent to Observer.
It appears that the parents of the child used constantly to be at logger-heads with a neighbour- ing family. In one of the fre- "or in respect of any act, mat- quent brawls the head of this family is said to have threaten- ter or thing done during the coned vengeance even after his tinuance of any proclamation death. The maker of this threati heretofore or hereafter issued died just about a year ago, and on several occasions recently a cobra was seen about the house of the child's parents.
On
the
Sunday
had ed, the child's father
fields. The the mother left the child in the house and went to a neighbour- ing house. To her horror, on her return she found her child lying unconscious on the ground and a cobra creeping away from The child had been the house. bitten in more than fifty placer, all below the ankles.
purported to be done in the
or
execution of his duty or for thei public safety or for the defense The Best, and the Least.
of the Colony or. for the enforce "A great deal of the present
nient of discipline or otherwise in misery and depression is due to the
the public interest, if such person fuct that in particular arons there be a person holding office under
The second ure too many of us.
or employed in the service of the dark cloud before us is that of
Crown in any capacity, whether differential fertility. The different
naval, military, air-force, are not tevels in the community
civil, or be a person holding multiplying at an equal rate, and
office under or employed in the the most desirable are multiplying service of the Government of the most slowly. If we take a thousand,
Colony in any capacity, or be a married men of fifty-five in the up-
person acting under the authority per and upper-middle classes, the
of a public officer, a member of rate is represented by 119 per 1,000,
the Volunteer Defence Corps, it is while for skilled workmen
member of the Hong Kong Police 153, and for unskilled workmen it
Reserve, or a special constable." is 213. Those who contribute best
This Ordinance strengthens the to the race are contributing least
Indemnity provision, section 14, of towards it as regards offspring. the principal Ordinance by the ad- Thirdly, natural selection is gone,dition of words taken mainly from Indemnity and we have not succeeded in find-1
section ing any good substitute for it. Ordinance No. 18 of 1922 Because man has formed a society and is a creature of reason he has jevaded natural selection, but what
1.
3 of the
he should have done was to press forward methods of rational social liness, it is apt to be a deterrent I notice in children selection so that the superior of progress. would get the benefits of their the fallacy of thinking' always of superiority and the inferior would something that is coming. I call be taxed for their inferiority. It the Thursday habit. They say, "To-morrow will be Friday and which tend to Arrangements make
be in-then we shall have reached Satur- it
to as well
Always thinking of the ferior as to be superior-and there! day.
There are no people
gone
to
mention-
Under the treatment of a vederala the child was fast im- proving, when on Tuesday night! the child was again bitten by the cobra on the head. At midnight| the child started crying out. A lamp was lit, and the cobra was seen creeping away. child died the following day.
NEW GERMAN CABINET.
The Bruening
Ministry.
The
Berlin, Yesterday.
The new Cabinet comprises:
Chancellor and Minister of the Foreign Office-Dr. Bruening.
Minister of Finance-Herr Dietrich.
Labour Minister-Herr Steger- wald,
Minister of the Interior-Dr. Groener.
Hiller and Hindenburg,
Earlier Cable. To-day's sensation is the
new.
are plenty of them just now-are future instead of the present is working against progress. We have apt to become a very continual to think out methods of social and habit, and it does not conduce to rational selection which will al-happiness.
It is officially confirmed that! ways give preference to those who living to-day of higher standard
than the highest intellectually President Hindenburg will receive deserve it,
low among the Greeks. Where is the Herr Hitler to-morrow, but it is is the "Finally, there standard of positive health. There progress, then? Surely that there Is not in this country much war- are more people now living who emphasised that the visit is not
new Government. rant for optimism as to the attain- know what the leaders of thought connected with the formation of a ment of positive health, and the old are after than there were among
Among the the Greeks.
Greeks enthusiasm for physical fitness has not quite been maintained in this there was a much bigger tail, which very seldom are able to wag. "Is our civilisation to perish like Thera are two great "I cannot go into the question of others? how the increase in world populachances of survival. We are in a tion is to be prevented, though remarkable way moving towards a discernment of the world Interde- the ways by which we shall check pendence to an extent that
fathers even had no idea of. We many Wors t. Historically, so have been due to overpressure of are also getting into the habit of an-putting science at the service of population, and there will be other war unless we check this in- every effort. We are now going to We should have an epoch In which science is crease of population. inculcate in our children and in to be brought to bear on all the ourselves the habit of not being problems of life.
generation.
A Stimulant of War.
birth control is obviously one
of
The more
our
we
too other-wordly, of not thinking can chart the seas of the future too much about a possible golden scientifically the mora chance we age to come: While there is some have of surviving, and that is our thing to be said for other-world- hope for the future."
Adalin
that President Hindenburg will receive the Nazi leader, Herr Hit ler, to-morrow, to discuss the situa tion.
This is the first time they have come into personal contact.
Meantime, Dr. Bruening la con- tinuing to prepare a Cabinet for presentation to-night, when he will ask the President to dissolve the Reichstag if the latter proves hos- tile towards the new Government.
Reuter.
The lowest open air temperature The yesterday was 19 degrees.
at 4 p.m. humidity was 56 at 10 am, and 70
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