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disoners known, would have swept over the whole of Central and Western Europe in the yours that followed the war, and killed an many people as the guns and bayonets in the great struggle it- helf. The white slave traffic has been one of the foulest blots on modern elvillantion. Bofore the war almost every nation tried to atamp it out, but lack of co-opera- tion made each one's efforts vain. With the coming of the League the whole altuation changed. Where single nations were powerless, the world, working as a whole, could Bucceed. To-dny, thanks to the |League's activities, the white sinve traffic has been reduced to neglig. Ible proportions. Many other in- stances could be given of the ways in which the League and its afiliat ed organisation, the International Labour Offico, have already rander- ed signal services to humanity, ser- Sparton Model 12.
vices which before they came into A most attractive console with being would not have been possibly butt walnut control panel and the care and settlement of the pleasing design. Has a remark-millions of refugees rendered home- able five tube Superheterodyne leas by the war, the prevention of chassis with Pentode and Screen sweated labour in mines, the con- Grid tubes and rectifier filter: system. The entire chass's is trol of drug smuggling, and so on. completely shielded and includes All these things are concrete an antenna compensating con, achievements, not the blather of a denser. Beautiful tone quality and talking shop. How have they been a marvellous performance.
brought about? What is the Height 33 inches. Width 23 League that it has been able to at- inches. Depth 101⁄2 inches. tempt them? What is the power Weight 40 pounds.
that has enabled it to succeed? The answers are that the League is the nations of the world consulting and working together for a conimon purpose, and its power is the vast force of world opinion.
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It has been well anid, that the League cannot be the enemy of any nation. It is the servant of every nation. It is like a powerful OSMUND-At her residence, No. 1, engine waiting to perform any task Liberty Avenue. Homuntin, at that is required of it, and the more p.m. yesterday, Marin Ionerha Oamund, heloved wife of Arthur Work it is given the more powerful Frederick Osmund, aged 49 years. it will became. Hitherto its poal- Funeral will pass the monument
at 5.30 p.m. to-day. Shanghai tive achievements have been com- and Macão papers please copy.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1932.
THE LEAGUE AND
ITS CRITICS
are
can
paratively small, but there great human wants which it con antisfy as well as it has satisfied the small. If the opinion of the world, Is in favour of disarmament the League can bring it about that the nations disarm. If the world cries out for peace the League ensure that its cry is answered. But until that opinion is formed, until that cry is uttered, the League is Powerless. Public opinion is the very motive power of the League, which it can no more oppose or pre- cede than a locomotive can oppose the steam in it's boiler.
It has become almost the fashion nowadays, especially amongst the ill-informed and the cynical, to fling cheap criticisms at the Lenguo of Nations. Chief amongst the jibes is that the Lengue la
"Forms of Things Unknown". Ilttle other than a "talking shop"
A new onest has been found for where statesmen who would he the Sherlock Holmes in us all. It better employed in looking after consists of trying to guess the their affairs at home spend pleasant circumstances, tastes and life his- weeks beside the beautiful Lake aftory of someone
whone contact Geneva exchanging banalities and with us is only through what he or entertaining one another to dinner.she has done. An indux'rious sol- ver of cross-word puzzles has ap- This type of criticism usually plled this method in the columns emanates from those who
neverof The Times to the author of a have given a moment's thought to set of literary, conundrums pro. the real accomplishments of the pounded in that journal. "We are League, and who seemingly have convinced," he says, "that he is a no disposition to do so. One of the clergyman or bred in a mid- troubles is, as Lord Cocit has point- Victorian rectory hence the ed out, that the League possesses navrams; that he was at Win- certain characteristics which chester, not Eton, read Hamlet for differentiate it from all other his School Certificate, went to Ox- ford. where he acquired n taste political organisms and' which
for Tennyson. Clouch and Snon- render it particularly lable to
eer. Thereafter he lived in Lon- criticism and controversy. Chiefdon, enioved private theatricals of these are its youth and what and clariant or legal dinner par be termed Ita fluidity. Itles, and anffered Freativ from Different people hold different barrel organa. He has now mtir views not only of what it ought to to the ennatre, where hunting be, but of what it is. This uncer- fond vardantur bath hore him, his interesta being cricket. He is a tainty may be explained in part
| Conserunfive who calls himself a from the fact that it is still in pro-1beral. ha a aon or a brother in cess of growth and la unencumber- T'a and a daughter in revolt." cd by the mass of rules and preco With this na a pattern, it might dents which control and define the by easy to deduce that the cronA- functions of the older political as-word solver himself has brown semblies.
ever to explain Celtic Imagina- Let us look for a moment at some ton; that he is a bachelor with $10,000 invested in British Con- of the accomplishments which stand Rols to account for his engaging to the credit of the League. To ingenuousness, Membership of a quote Lord Ceell again, apart from smart club in Picendily, varnish. its major business of proventing ed shoes and two shaves a day wars-and it has already provented seem to follow as a matter a number the League has already course. The gamo of make-be- a record of achievement to its love may thus go on indefinitely credit which has made an immenso Shakespeare's "A Midsummer ko the imagination of Theseus in
difference to the happiness of
Night's Dream" which "bodica millions of people throughout the forth the forms of things un- world. If the League had not ex-known." It is a harmless pursuit, Isted it in probable that typhus, [though not equal to stick-whittling one of the cruellest and deadliest as a real stand-by.
may
of
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!
|
DAY BY DAY WHAT IS SCIENCE
LET NO ONE WHO BEGINS AN INNOVATION IN A SIATE EXPECT THAT HE SHALL STOP IT AT HIS
PLEASURE, OR REGULATE IT ACCORD- ING TO HIS INTENTIONS.Machia- velli.
DOING FOR US?
By HAROLD COK
THE British Association remem
Opisin polsioning is believed to have Advancement of one for the human race? It has to be re the
NOWIOUR
naval
•
nic-
pro-
of
been the cause of the removal to the finished its annual conference, and manual work done in the past
Hospital yesterday of a one must confess that the reporta generations was itself of n coolie named Chan 'un-nag, of 24, of its proceedings have left the chanical type requiring very little Apliu Street.
javerage man a little dazed, both use of the human brain. There is by the multiplicity of subjects also, in spite of the progress of the A resident of 24, Tin Hong Street, discussed and by the intricncica machine," п first floor, a married woman, was re of scientifle detail.
still considerable market for special articles Few of the speakers, however, duced by skilled manual labour. moved to the Government Civil Hos-. phal yestrany by her husband suffer- 17 from the effects of elpum polson- failed to explain how their branch: So far, indeed, as the machine of science had brought practical satiaftes publie wants for staple ing.
benefits to mankind. The geolo commodities at a redused cost. At Included in the list of the latest gists, for example, pointed out leaves the consumer free to spend promotions is the name of that the aclentine study .. the more money on articles of a Capt. A. H. Walker, who has been formation of the strata promoted to Rear Admiral. Cap. the soil had facilitated the dis- grrtification of the mind
beneath higher standard designed for the rather Walker was until recently Commodore,covery of valuable minerals, and than for the satisfaction of in Hongkong.
the had also enabled underground needs of the body. streams of water to be detected Everywhere people are devoting Through taking an overdoso of with more accuracy than was ever moro and more of their attention ecolle, of 151 Second Street, oplum, Choung Wing-yeung, n shop
was possible by the old divining rod. to the pleasures of life. There is
the an ever-increasing taken to the Government Civil Hos- Indeed, as an exposition of
volume Pin. yesterday. It is suspected that claims of science to serve man the pleasure-travel by motor vehicles, the man attempted to commit suicide. proceedings of the conference by holiday trains and by ships; may be regarded as distinct cinomas and "talkien" continue to The winning numbers in the raffles (success.
multiply; vast crowds gather to Branch of the H.K.W.G. and M.C.L. recently organised by the Palleo Incidentally, however, a bigger watch games and race-meetings; question Was raised, namely, while increasing thousands of are as follow:-"Jill and her Bed", Number 1, won by Mins donn Dredge; whether the services rendered by people devote big slices of the day baby's dress, won by ticket number science to man have on balance to the old English hobby of gar- 11, Mrs. O'Connor.
brought to him good or harm. dening, which Bacon described as Harmful Developments
"the purest of human pleasures" Dr. Walter L. Barnes, medical That some modern develop and "the greatest refreshment to fleer with the United States Public ments have been distinctly harm the spirits of man.” President Taft He is being trans-example, the invention of poison By some persons this tendency Health Service, arrived here by the ful few people would deny. For Work and Play Ileving Dr. Rubino, who will assume war to an extent which is na yot demned on religieds grounds, but ferred to the Hongkong oflee,
gas has added to the horrors of to prefer ploy to work is the vacant post in Manila.
only partly realised. So also has it in difficult to understand why. The wedding will shortly take place the invention of the submarine, Is there anything more morally between Mr. James Dawson Parkinson as the experiences of the Great ennobling in forging a horseshoe electrical engineer, of the China War fully showet.
than in hitting a cricket ball? Wo Light Power Co., and Miss Olive May. Jefferson, school teacheer of Keying motor-car are not purely beneficial. to work and to die, and we must Even such developments as the 'do not come into the world simply ham Hall, York, who is en route for, The noise of some motor-cars is a give to science credit for having: Hongkong by the s.s. Cemorin. distinct public nuisance, and the expanded our opportunities for
Ideath-dealing capacity of care leisure and for play. The many friends of Mr. II. A.
con-
of be-
Lammert, who has been a patient of lessly driven cars has created a Nor is the increased leisure of the Victorin Hospital for three months now risk to human life. Nor can mankind occupied solely with play, will be glad to learn that he is now we forgel that the aeroplane, As the need for persistent hard making excellent progress towards with the wonderful service that work to earn the necessaries recovery. He has been abio get out of it offers to man, is also a power- life declines, so do people, doora for a brief period during the ful weapon for the destruction of longing to the educated classes, past two days.
life and property in time of war. turn their minds to matters which Beyond these particular ex- have for them no commercial Chan Po-man, aged 20, a student amples of the dangerous results value but a vivid intellectual in- of King's College, was taken to the of some modern inventions, there terest. The British Association Government Civil Hospital yesterday suffering from injuries received by arises the more general question itself provides outstanding evid- bejug assaulted, it is alleged, by an- of the effect of scientific progress once of this fact. other student outside the college in upon the personality-of the human, Scientific research is a splendid Bonham Rond. The victim's condi-being. Broadly speaking, the occupation. It may bring no tion was not considered to be serious, tendency of modern developments pecuniary reward to the individ-
is to substitute the work of the ual, but it keeps his mind The Peninsula Hotel la presenting machine for the work of another of their enjoyable symphonic This means that
man. good deal more effectively busy- the workman, than does a game of bridge. be seen from the programme which concerts on Sunday next, and as will instead of doing a job with hia On balance, then, we are justi-
own fied in welcoming the Appears in the advertising columns own hands, guided by te-day, there is a good variety of brain, has simply to stand and that science has made; but that instrumental numbers which should watch a machine do the work. is no reason why we should sit afford a splendid evening's entertain- The world doubtless gains in down placidly to endure the many ways by this change, All specific evils that have. n'tcom- kinds of commodities witch con-panied these advances. For ex- An absorbing lecture on. "Biology tribute to the comfort of life can ample, why should we put up witha in Education" was delivered before be obtained at less cost, and can the cure of noise arising out of kong University hat evening by Dr. wear out. the Education Society of the Honge be quickly released when they motor traffic. It is true that even the worst of modern motor
ment.
G. A. C. Herklots, the Reader in
his
advances
KD
Biology at the University, In the But how about the individual vehicles probably makes less noise course of which he outlined the workman? He has lost the pride than an old horse-wagon with iron rdvratneen to be obtained by a study and the joy of turning out a piece tyres passing over a rough cobble of natural history, and gave much of skilfully finished manunt work-pavement. helpful advice.
Instead of being master of his own But that is no argument for job he has become the slave of permitting motor-cycles to If you like sheer farce and earring The Love Race," the must tond to produen a buffoonery, you should make a point the machine. That this change roaring through our towns, and ertain even along quiet country lanes, British film now showing at the amount of mental deterioration without a silencer. Similar, con Queen's Theatre. Stanley Lupino seems inevitable, and to that ex-siderations' apply to other forma hends the cast, and he is a scream tent the progress of science must of modern noise. They are not a from start to finish. Jack Hobbs is be accepted us an injury to run-necessary adjunct of modern ma- an excellent fall for his witticisms, kind. British 6ms nhown in Hongkong, and
chinery; they are the result of a while the feminine parts are also very ably taken. Quite one of the funniest More Pleasure
lack of appreciation of the value But does this injury in practice of quiet. affect a very large section of the Advancement of Man
one not to be missed.
14-18
"T
always ask myself, which
one
would
Garbo be crazy about,”
The scientific efforts of to-day should be. directed to a removal of any ill effects arising out of the scientific progress of yesterday,
If this can be done there will ibe full justification for the opin- ions expressed by Sir Richard address urging Gregory in his that scientific teaching should be He went given to young people.
ao far as to say that science has "an aesthetic value." Whether that is true to-day is A little doubtful: but it might certainly be true to-morrow if the con-
aefentifie trollers of
progress would take care that full atten Ition is given to the northetic as well as to the mechanical sides of human life.
We could then safely claim that the progress of scienco meant not the decay but the advancement of man.
Woman's Age
By LYNNE JOYCE
FEW nights ago at an in- formal dinner-party, I wit nosed the really devilish torture to which one of those plain-spoken women who never bother about their appearance, subjected an attractive friend, who looked at least six or seven years younger than she did. The pretty one's apparent age was about thirly.
It began over the table. Fixing her victim with a gimlot eye, the plain-spoken woman launched out. on to a sea of remfalscence.
"I bellova the very last time we met was in Shanghai.. mast (Continued on Page 7.)