THE CHINA, MAIL, WKONESDA
BIGGEST AMERICAN NATIONAL DEBT
HELPFUL SCIENCE
INVENTIONS
WHICH SAVE
THOUSANDS
Work of "Taxpayers' Scientists"
DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
Several of the most import- ant patents which chemical en- gineers from all over the world were inspecting at the Chemi- cal Plant Exhibition in the Cen- tral Hall, Westminster, recently are the inventions of British They Government scientists.
are part of the work of the De- "artment of Scientific and In- dustrial Research. on which the taxpayers spend 2500,000 year.
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An official of the Department stated that about 30 patents are applied for every year. Some of them are the means of saving hundreds of thousands of pounds to industry and of cutting down expensive foreign imports. Aj
textile typical example is a new "mercerising agent which can be manufactured for 4s a 'gallon, as compared with £1 a gallon paid for a foreign product.
"Quinoline"
The latest Government invention is "quinoline." a substance which prevents aeroplane fuel from cor- roding the magnesium-alloy tanks, The belief that "quinoline" actual- ly improves the power of the petrol is now determined by further re- Bearch.
The most important invention by a tax-payers' scientist" in re cent years is the Townend ring, a patent cowling for radial engines, which adds 8 or 10 m.p.h. to an aeroplane's speed. It was invent- ed by Dr. Townend, of the Depart. ment of Scientific and Industria! Research.
Discovery Came To Nothing
A fine view of a bayonet charge by American militiamen upon the hostile crowd during the strike among the textile workers,
JAPANESE BEES COMING TO
CHINA AGAIN
Big Regular Trade Previous
To Shanghai Trouble
Shanghai.-The busy bee busi- ness is buzzing again in China. Twenty thousand honey gatherers of selected quality, carefully sort- ed over by a Tokyo expert to eliminate drones, have arrived from Kobe as the largest bee shipment to
since the "Shanghai war" days of 1932.
Previors to the period of Sino- Japanese tension it was a com- mon thing for Japan to ship 200,000,000 bees to China, with a value of around а million dollars
come
SOLDIERS FACING SERIOUS CHARGE.
Alleged Robbery With Violence
NIGHT ADVENTURE ON. CASTLE PEAK ROAD
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Three soldiers of the Royal U- ster Rifles, Riflemen Thomas Todd,j Sydney Brown and Thomas Har- Sometimes what seems like a reer, appeared before Mr. Q. A. A markable invention comes to noth-Macfadyen yesterday at the Kow- ing. The Government has patent-loon Magistracy, charged with ed a process for obtaining petrol having assaulted and robbed and oil from rubber. When it was taxi-driver on the Taipo Road in invented rubber cost. 2d. per lb. the early morning hours of July 6. Now, with rubber at Sd no one! Mr. E. H. Williams. Assistant would think of exploiting it.
Crown Solicitor, appeared for the Despite its many patents, the prosecution, assisted by Detective Department has no "professional Sergeant C. H. Goodwin, while ac- inventors. Almost all the dis-
by were unrepresented fcused coveries come incidentally in the
Lieut Fitz G. Donlea, counsel. fundamental research. R.U.R., watched the case on behalf Dr. Townsend, for instance,,
of the military authorities. studying aerodynamics, not en- gine-cowling, when he devised his remarkable ring.
course of
was
scientist may be given the highly
springs.
Mr. E. H. Williams, outlining: the case for the Crown; stated that the charge was that early in
accused, assaulted
CONDITIONS IN
WEST AFRICA ̈
MUCH BETTER
Great Improvement In Sanitation
CANNOT NOW BE CALLED "WHITE MAN'S GRAVE”
West Africa can no longer with justice be termed "the White Man's
LOW-FLYING FATALITY IN BELGIUM
Woman Killed By Plane And
Companion Injured
Brussels.—A 34-year-old woman was killed and her companion injured at Wenduyne, near Blan- kenberghe, recently when a 'piane flying low hit them while they were walking.
It is understood that a prosecTU- tion is likely.
TREASURY FIGURES HUGE DEFICIT
AT CLOSE OF
FISCAL YEAR
Largest Recorded In Peace Time
THREE YEARS OF NEW DEAL
Washington.
The third fiscal year under the New Deal ended at mid- night on June 30.
The National Debt has in- creased by an enormous sum and there is a heavy deficit des-! pite a substantial rise in re-
venue.
The figures, which illustrate. what the Republican critics of President Roosevelt describe as the "New Deal carnival of spend- ings," shows
Treasury deficit of £42,000,000 for the past year, the biggest every recorded in peace time;
Record national debt of £6,800,- 000,000, an increase of more thaa £2,000,000,000 since the Roosevelt Administration was inaugurated in March, 1933;
Revezue of £816,000,000, the highest in the country's history" apart from the brief post-war period;
£1,758,000,000, Expenditure compared with January's estimate.
Graver This is evident from the PROBLEM OF THE BAD of €415.000.000 night the Secre
"Vital Statistics of Noa-Native Officials," issued recently by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, They show that a remarkable all- round improvement has taken place during the past 30 years.
LITTLE BOY
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tary to the Treasury, Mr. Morgen-! thau. made a wireless report to the nation resembling Mr. Chamber-
world-famous Budget] lain's now
Day broadcast. He announced The State spends annually althe final figures for the year based
tions.
оп
£330,250--on
Positive Work
amount
to
In 1905 the number of Euro-very large sum of money-for on last-minute telegraphic reports peans in service in Gambia, Sierra the current year on approved to Washington.
Fears Unjustified Leone, the Gold Coast and Nigeria schools alone, was 1,491. In 1935 the number was looking after children who have Mr. Morgenthan's gloomy pre- more than doubled-2,995, includ-gone wrong; the whole burden diction on April 30 to the Senate ing 134 women officials yet the of supplying the facilities Finance Committee that the deficit
which are likely to keep them for the year would from going wrong, which are £1,193,000,000 was unnecessarily the alternatives to street-gangs pessimistic. and corner-lounging and play- The defcit, however, is £96,- ing pitch-and-toss on the waste j000,000 more than the estimate land behind the new factory,made in January before all cal- falls voluntary organisa-culations were thrown out by the Supreme Court's decision that the agricultural processing taxes were That is the positive work illegal and before Congress ap That is the creating of citizens. proved, despite the President's But the moment you begin to veto, the immediate payment of talk about "juvenile delin- quency" you take up a negative attitude. A boy becomes 2 (Continued from Previous CoL) criminal because of four main
The "chance," which makes influences on him: heredity, a person into a good citizen and environment, luck, and his own not a criminal, lies, not in the inclination. Exactly the same most model prison or disciplin-
differently influences, four
ary institution, but in circum- canalised, turn him into a good stances which make any desire citizen.
To be a criminal unnecessary Heredity no kind of present and silly. One's irritating 13- social organisation caf change. year-old godchild does not run the first time, à Ministry of Sport. If you are born the descendant on with the car from the
of a long line of cattle-thieves.
M. Leon Blura, Socialist Pre- mier of France, has created, for
Few Now Invalided
the veterans' bonus.
Often quite junior workers make the morning of July 6 three mea number of deaths during the year and poackers, you are; but that garage in the evening, and try because he is afraid of the law the discoveries. While a seniot whom he hoped to prove were the was only 15, as compared with 42 is no reason why, however in highway, hold-ups with it, not a taxi-driver in 1905. The death-rate per 1,000 tense the urge to rustle cattle and punishment, but because he skilled, but unoriginal, task of}. named Leung Yin and robbed him fell in the 30 years from 23.1 to and dynamite trout you need has hundreds of other things making delicate measurements, his of $11, a nickel-plated match, an 5.1, and the average length of ser-perform these anti-social tricks cricket-nets; a stamp-collection, junior may be handling materials electric torch and a whistle on the vice of those who died increased merely because all your uncles the new F. G. Wodehouse, act- from which an unexpected process Castle Peak Road near the Laichi- from 3% years to 10 years and and great-uncles did. To being a play with the children outstandingly good at anything.next door, or boxing or swim- kok Prison. He then gave a de-eight months.
whether crime or world-saving ming to divert his darting, Unlike commercial firms Govern-tailed account of the men's move-
a complete restless attention. Those are ment scientists never keep their ments on the night of July 5 and The number of persons invalided generally means secrets longer than they can help the following day after their re- in 1905 was 93. With more than break from all inherited tradi-lawful activities. Stealing the car is not. The more lawinl turn to barracks.
double the number in the service tion and tendencies.
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and enjoyable activities, with The case was adjourned to 2.30 in 1935, only 37 persons were in-
All the other influences are the young, the less unlawful. this afternoon, :.
valided. The rate per 1,000 (eH; from 62-3 to 12.4. The average those which mould a chûd after It is as simple as that, really. length of service of those invalid-birth. There is no need for any ed rose from two years and seven of them to be anti-social in effect. The average crime is months to 10 years, by
During 1905 300 officials left the seldom the result of deliberate service after serving an average of malicious intention but of drift. There is, in crime, no "glory- three years and one month. Last ing in evil". The terminology year 255 left, with an average ser- iby which crime is usually rice of 91⁄2 years. "The average
known shows how painfully service of the women officials who
benevolent and well-intentioned
As soon as a new process or inven- tion is seen to have commercial passibilities, it is passed on. British industry..
EX-PLANTER FROM MALAYA DEAD
Mr. F. A. Trollope
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
CAUSE OF DEATH.
to
EGG-SHELL SKULL
Fall During Quarrel Causes Death
CEREBRAL HAEMORRHAGE
SUPERVENES
left. during 1935 was six years. it is: you don't commit a crime,
At the hearing of a manslaugh-Their average was less than in the you make a little mistake:" ter case at Newcastle recently, a case of the men because seven of you are not found out, adjudg-
Mr. Frank Anthony Trollope, doctor stated that the dead man's them resigned in order to be mar-led guilty and sent to prison, Laged 64, à retired planter from skull was only one-tenth the nor-ried after short periods of service you have a bit of trouble."
the FALS, died, it is learned, at mal thickness.
Of the 15 deaths in 1935, only However confusedly,
the
- his residence at Taipo Road on Robert Douglas 23, an abem-two were due to tropical disease. minds which use these phrases Saturday morning, and was buried ployed labourer, of Newcastle, was Four were the result of accidents know evil from good and would yesterday at Happy Valley, charged with the manslaughter of The 1935 figures show an im-rather have good, if they could
He came to "Hong Kong about John George Bellamy, 19.
provement over those for 1334 just understand how. That is two months ago for a six months Mr. Barry. Jones, prosecuting. The death-rate per 1,000 was 14their pathos, and if they come visit. On Friday night be went said that a quarrel arose while lower, and there were four fewer under the right infinences early to bed as usual, apparently in the the two young men were taking invalidings. best of health, but according to part in a gambling game.
his servants, he died about 1 am. It was alleged that Douglas
enough, that is their chance.
"Another Chance”
The old lag muttering tooth-
after coughing for a short while struck Bellamy, who fell, striding FIGHTY PASSENGERS RESCUED lessly to the magistrate "Give
Suspicious of his sudden de this head on some railings. Douglas zmise, the police took the case in carried him home and attempted
hand and ́ ́ ́held a post mortem in vain to revive him. "They are now perf
that, death was due to -capses, namely.
The motor vessel; of Gizvan, Ayrshire,
Check DZ Wiliam Giles said that half a mile north of atural, death was, due to cerebral hemorrbour last month. About
age. Bellamy's skull was notgers were landed
ally thin.faking fleet and lifeboati
me another: chance, me lord, 1] 958 swear I won't let yer down," is hore simply doing his patters but once upon a time that had It prob - meaning and, purpose the ably has even now for the
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