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THURSDAY,
example, get to appreciate the bone- fits of fresh alr and hygienic methods of living. The experience thus gained is also passed on to others, so that it is cumulative in Its effects. In short, it is better to have some special institution for the care of sufferers rather than to let the scourge take ita own course in the worst possible surroundings, There can be no doubt that in Hongkong the mala cause of tuber. culosis is the overcrowding which is to be found in the slum districts, with the expectoration habit also a big factor in the spread of the disease. It is antinfactory to know that at long, inat some effort is be ing made to deal with this Intter evit. On the large Jasue, the greatly needed reconstruction of the town, natural developments are gradually taking place which must eventually have a beneficial effect. With the development of big new areas in Kowloon and elsewhere.
DECEMBER 31, 1931.
DAY BY DAY
IN LIFE IS TO BE A GOOD ANIMAL Herbert Spencer,
THE FIRST REXQUISITE TO SUCCESS
will be on Saturday. We take this The next issue of the Telegraph opportunity of wishing our readers a Happy New Year.
A painter named Chnu Yam-choung, aged 38, of 6, Wellington Street, has Hospital suffering from crushed fin- been admitted to the Government
ger received whilst at work.
Suffering from the effects of an overlose of Adalin, Lal Sing-cheang. aged 57, of 18A Aberdeen Street, was removed Hospital yesterday in an unconscious to the Government Civil
condition."
mishng occurred in Stavely Street. erushed toon. It was stated that the
CAN SCIENCE GIVE: MORE SENSES?
By PROFESSOR A. M. LOW.
Wo
THAT science can give un more time we shall, no doubt, require but that actence can give human ing, although the number of im- THAT
sense is an established fact, scientific aids to tasting and smell- beings more senses may well sound portant sonsations improbable!
receive Yet
un 11 Amail through the nose and mouth are scale aciones has already given comparatively amall. men and women sight, and more recently, hear
Can science go still furthor and henring.
give us senses of which we have It is many years now since opticians
discovered
at the moment little or no know- that by placing suitable lenses in front,
ledge? that for one reason ayes
or
What is the mysterious
ense
have
4 German scientist has already and hearing-although how those
Alleged to have been run over by of
hand truck, A small girl, Kwan another were deficient, it was pos- which enables two people to and Ngel-kiu, of 4, Tal Wong Street, was sible to give removed to the Government
the sußeror "the Hospital yesterday suferin Civil equivalent of almost perfect sight. sure in each other's company. even when they do not talk? Is The boon of glasses to shart- it the same sense which seems to sighted people is too obvious to enable need
some Without sight
people to evd emphasis. people are slowly moving out of the by Wang Ng, a coolie, of 20, Matau-i depend upon light. It is probabloom, although they cannot see or Injuries to his body were received there cannot be a developed brain, knowledge that danger is near, or that someone is present in the since so many of our impressions. congested areas, but the process is wai Rond, whilst at work at thu likely
hear them? ві іні а protracted one. this morning. The man was crushed will give mankind an even greater Green Island Cement Company early that in the near future, science Without a doubt, much of the exist against a wall through a wire rape gift that will make glasaos a thing these senses are probably due to Experiments have shown that of a lift breaking. The man was re- of the ng old property should be con-
moved to the Kowloon Hospital for
oscillations-like those of sight demned as uninhabitable, but if this treatment.
performed, with moderate saccess, movements are set up and received were to be seriously undertaken, it
The many friends of Mr. D. . de eye, correcting its shape, so that
an operation upon the lens of the a still a mystery. would mean demolishing a great Silva will be interested to hear that a short-sighted person was given! part of the city. We should like to
he is returning to the Colony to take normal vision. In the future this
Everyday Telepathy. ap work as Agent for the Sun Life feel, however, that the Government Assurance Company of Cand out, with the consequent diaap- although sufficient is not shown of Great strides have been made in operation may be generally carried the investigation of telepathy. in fully alive to the urgency of this da Silva has been in England for over
four years, and whilst at Home he pearance of a great deal of dis- the subject yet to justify its being overerinding problem, for so long has given питствия lectures on gurement and discomfort. as it goes untouched, so long will
travel subjecte.
To those who have lost their reasonably doubt that in the fu- called a science. No one can the predisposing cause
sense of hearing science is also ture we shall understand these of tuber-
Watson & Co., Ltd., offering a mechanical cure. Satis mysterious forces, or even that culosis
advertise that during the New Year factory mechanical methods of telepathy may become the ordinary #utidnys the Company Oflces all departments will be
and aiding the affected enr in its task January 2, the Hongkong Dispensary, have been discovered.
closed. On of receiving sound sensations and method of communication. Friday, January 1 and Saturday, | transmitting them to the brain Dispensing Department, will be open for dispensing prescriptions from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 6p.m. 7.30 pm.
remain. Poverty
and
any kind expressions of sym-economics admittedly enter into the pathy in their recent bereavement, matter, thus complicating the Issue. also for fural tributes sent and attendance at the funeral,
But sooner or later the issue must be seriously faced.
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1931.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Measra. A, S.
to
Advantage of Being Deaf.
The arrangement by which we have to put an idea into words and then agitate our throat.
mouth, und tongue before it can
л
It is
Wireless has proved of little use be conveyed to another, ta exceed- Under the pretext that they had a paratus, but valve amplifiers are as a great boon to those who because of the weight of the ap-ingly clumsy. Telepathy would Empire Broadcasting. present for the occupier of the house, used in churches although skilled wish to think as deafnem, without
four men armed with daggers Front the moment when trans-admitted to the first floor of 13, Upper them. The
wero attention is necessary to maintain. ite accompanying dieadvantages, ceanic short-wave telephony bear Rqw, yesterday morning-t
Inost
Hatisfactory for there would seemingly be no came even ass experimental possi-occupier's wife, who was on the four denf has been found to be micro-helmet which would prevent the
After short conversation with the method of giving hearing to the Kreat difficulty in designing bility, the idea of regular "Empire with two servants, the men produced magnification, and the broadcasting" has naturally had a ingers and, after binding and gag meals, of which many kinds are impressions until it was "switched instru- wearer from receiving telepathic considerable fascination for enger ging the inmates, stole valuables made, are really spectacles for the pn." and
amounting to $85. progressive minda. Suels
care Whilst we are among those who minds have long been wondering
The deaf have now actually one speak to-day is probably a com- The "sixth sense" of which we The forthcoming weddings are an- believe that there is need for a why their dream is not alrendy an
nounced of Mr. Charles David Beltoa, hearing, for they need only hear the course of time it may well advantage over those with perfect bination of many things, and in sanatorium in this Colony, there accomplished fact, and are apt to
insurance manager, of 5, Hongkong what they can be no disputing the submis.think that. but for the lethargy Kathleen Dovell, nursing sister of the inventor. if he did not and his same way as our eara and eyca Road, Shanghai, and Miss Dora friend naked. Edison, the great by mechanical devices, in mach the
require. When
become highly developed, ponsibly sion made by His Excellency the sible for development, it would Malaya; Mr. Stanley Oswald Greg "On the contrary, it probably is
and conservatism of those respon- General Hospital, Johore deafness a handicap, he Governor that the most effective have become so. Actually, there Hongkong, and Miss Dorothy Priestly, one of my secrets of success.
replied. bookseller, of 13. ncdonell Road,
are aided at present, means of dealing with the tabor-has been an evolution, not less of school mistress of 47, Swains Lane, do not waste time talking, and tainly demand more impressions In I The man of the future will cor- culosis problem is by way of haus-ideas than of technique, in the London; Mr. Antonio Carlos Neves, can think quietly in spite of noise order ing reform and efforts which aim intervening five years.
clerk, of 60, Robinson Road, Hong-about me."
to receive pleasure. Techni-kong, and Miss Sophin Mohamed
His pictures will be three-dimensional, at making people live according cally, the scraps of transoceanic Alarukia, of the same address.
Coming from the inventor of the and accompanied not only by to more sanitary problems. This, conversation achieved in delight
gramophone, this statement was resound, but also by smell. markable. I think it far from im-Jalready known that taste can play however, is
and triumph by professional and 拉 herculean task. amateur experts, have developed that the situation is ripe for at and women will be equipped with entertainment!
probable that in the future men a big part in the enjoyment of an which, us His Excellency says, into a reasonably, though not en- least the beginnings of true over-apparatus to eliminate must take time. At the present tirely, steady "service" of com- cas
unnecessary
"The fullness with which life is broadcasting. Experiments sounds, so that they need listen moment, there are about fifty deathsmercial telephony over
lived an
and enjoyed depends largely certain carried out in recent months havenly when they so desire.
upon the nature and number of attributable to tuber- routes. Great publie departments, hnd satisfactory results and the to-day that we should be able to who keeps his eyes and cars upon
It is quite important to health sensations received.
The man culosis, a truly terrible toll. The corporations and companies have .B.C. are now definitely commil select the good from the medley obviously knows a great deal more worst feature is that there is very spent large sums not only on ex-ted to the construction of a power. of unnecessary uproar which so than his friend who looks without
perimental, but on "service" in- ful station little done in the way of providingstallations. Once this stage had station will probably he placed in tial to their suce
at Daventry. The many people seem to think casen-seeing and hears without perceiv special facilities for the treatment been reached, it was an obvious active service before the end of
Ing. In many ways it is fortunate of miferers, and, as a result, the and necessary step for broad-the coming year. The service will of the mind, we have
We shall probably come to value that, with
increasing sensitivity the additional senses given to us disease goes largely unchecked, casters and Governments to study deal with news and national eventa atrophy in our animal perceptions. that
Buffered by science all the more because The new wards just opened at the the possibilities of the short wave-ceremonial, historie and sport. The brains of a man and the cars acute
of hearing, which is so As the carrier of programmie ser- Kwong Wah Hospital represent a
ing, and should serve not only to of a bird would be at most cruel in gradually being atrophied.
in animals and savages, step in the right direction, and then necessity not only was not
vices for the world. Until then, stir the "exile'g" imagination, but combination.
Is it not true that even to-day their provision is a development on obvions, but did not even
Scientific aids to seeing and we cannot appreciate the rhythm hearing have become which all concerned are to be enm- For, if one looks back on the his-
necessary of the forcet danco unless exist
with the march of civilisation. In appeal is made by alght and sound mended. It will be realised, how- tory of this development, one finds
to the preliminary bodily contor- tions which produce the mental ever, that such efforts can only that until recently the real driving touch the fringe of the problem; forces in it were commercial tele. we shall need to go to the root of phony and "unateur" interest. things if we wish to make any sional performances, gramophone "Programmes," consisting of occa. real impression.
per week
records, and relays of ordinary Meanwhile, we have existing con- broadcast matter naturally re- ditions to face, and it is because placed casual conversation, and there is no immediate prospect of the reading of teats plecen, at an widespread preventive measures be-early stage, but they were only ing taken that we feel something Incidental to the scientifle develop- could be done to alleviate the aufment. It is only in the last two ferings of those who are stricken years (or at most three) that and to reduce the heavy death-giving programme services, and organisations concerned with roll from the disease, It is nothing else, have seriously taken true, ns His Excellency says up short-wave work. Even to-day, that in the East aufferers are reno ahort-wave station hos, as such, luctant to go into sanatoria until become a member of the Interna- the disease has gone so far that this very moment, one of the tional Broadensting Union, and at cure is impossible; that will also great American stations, which be the case, to some extent, where has been known'all over the world special wards are provided in exist for years, is applying for the first ing hospitals. Yet we do know time for a normal broadcasting that in several Eastern centres certainly not appreciated in the licence. These facts-which are very good work is being done by radio world as they should be sanatoria. Even if most of the suffice to demonstrate that world- enses handled fail to respond to wido broadcasting presents pro- treatment, there are some in which blems of very real complexity both cures are recorded. To that extent, technical and general. On the the system is of value. Moreover, other hand, the fact that all the In these Institutions the patientstiona have now-aimultaneously Important broadcasting organian- receive invaluable advice regarding and almost suddenly-extended their future mode of life, and, by into this fold, can only signify
create a new demand for wireless in the Colonies.
Виссени.
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FANLING GOLF.
STARTING TIMES FOR HOLIDAYS.
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The starting times on the Oit Course to-morrow are:
9.10-0.20 a.m. Not to be booked by
those travelling by 8.28 am train.
9.24 T. II. Geare, L. R. Andrewes. 9.28 O, E C. Marton, E. Q. Priestley. 1.32 H. R. Sturt, A. D. Brawn 9.36 A. Sommerfelt, G. W. Sewell.
The first two pairs on Old Course after arrival of the 8.28 a.m. train should get their clubs and then got their caddies from the Superintendent...
SATURDAY.
New Course.
0.28 Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Stowart, 0.36 J. P. Sherry, Mrs. Sherry. 9.44 W. A. Stewart, S. 9. Cook.
Old Course,
9.10-0.20 Not to be booked by players
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The first two pairs on Old Coarse. after the arrival of 8.38 am, train should get their clubs and then get their caddies from the Superintendent.