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WHY IS HONGKONG
OVERLOOKED ? Delegates from Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Manila are passing through Hongkong this week, on their way to Shanghai for the conference which is being held under the auspices of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medi- cine. Hongkong, of course, will be represented at the gathering,
TUESDAY,
NOTES OF THE DAY
TRAGIC STATISTICS
SEPTEMBER 25, 1934.
BOTHER OF BABIES
IN POLITICS
By M. GORDON FRASER
The Very Idea!
WE SEE TARZAN
CA
By George
MAN any of our readers tell us what has hap-
E old saying, that "the hand; between 1926 and 19:32. But this that rocks the cradle rules represents a slowing down as the world" has taken on a political compared to previous periods of pened to Tarzan? significance these days.
equal length. The net increase in
Last week we want to see our civilized world, anxious for their per 1.000 in the period 1921-25 todellar's packet of thrill as usual,,
Statesmen in many parts of the the United States fell from 10.7 country's place in the sun, have 6.6 in 1932.
Not very many people realise what the Great War cost Great Britain. Not vory many more appreciate the utter chaos which must inevitably follow another world catastrophe. If they did there would be less of that spirit of militant nationalism abroad. A great economist said recently: "Another world war will be the end of the world. Civilisation, as we know it, as we have built it through the conturica, would be destroyed, It would in all probability result in the suicida of the greater part of the white race. But it would cer tainly result in the bankruptcy of the combatants and a depression such as we cannot conceive." lo may have had in mind the same Agures to which Mr. Herberty any means the birth rate la made to rise, the added man power Tracey, the noted writer, had
is reflected in a feeling of greater access when he wrote, "We Have political security in certain na Not Yet Paid for the Late War,"
tional consciousnesses..
STAGGERING COST
been loudly crying for more and In India, on the other hand, it and were amazed at the change. busler cradles, it is indeed a a rose in the same years by over which a few months' absence vital fact in the international two per 1,000 to 8.4. The ten from the screen had wrought in situation that the modern ten-years ending 1931-showed an inhim. dency toward decline in the rate crease in the Indian population of at which population increase has no less than 10 per centor 34 become a major factor of national 000,000, which is not far short of apprehension. Conversely, when the total population of France or
Italy.
Such an attitude is a strange reversal of the cry of half a cen- In round figures, the War add.tury ago when the world was still ed £7,000,000,000 to Britain's under the influence of the Malthu- pational debt. This, notwithstand sian theory of approaching over in the additional taxation of population. No longer la thera fear that population will outrun £1,700,000,000, plus £500,000.000 collected in exocas profits duty. the means of subsistence. The These are easily calculable money
starving masses predicted by the Malthusites have not come upoit losses incurred through war, Mr. Tracey points out. It la far more us not at any rate in the expect difficult to estimate the conne-ed way. Where there is lack of quences of war in terms of trade sustenance to-day It is not be- and employment. Ono napect of cause there are too many mouths! the situation might be the fall of to feed. Production still outruns oversens trade of a country. An- population. Indeed it has forged other is the growth of restrictions further ahead than ever before. upon trade. In regard to the It is the distribution system of the latter, It may be as well to bear world that has lagged, in mind that the Versailles Pence Treaty nearly doubled the number of independent customs areas In central and castern Europe, which meant that the administration of taxes and restrictions on trade fell into the hands of comparatively new and inexperienced authorities. Typical of the regulations made by neophytes in economic science can be found in those framed by the Latvian Government in 1931, which arbitrarily reduced the quantity of boots and shoes that might be im- ported annually into Latvia, from all countries, tú half a ton..
NO MONEY IN CRIME
This
It will be interesting to seg whether the Canadian Provincial Legislature of Ontario puts through the "anti-ransom" law suggested by Attorney General Roebuck. official would have the police given authority-to-close the bank accounts, seal the safety depasit in common with all
other vaults, and otherwise supervise the centres in the Far East. Is it finances of kidnappedt persona and not time, however, that some their relatives. The den of this, Leffort were made to attract such of course, would be to make the conferences to this Colony payment of ransom impossible; and in theory, at least, it is a sound Shanghai usually appears well in
programme. It is perfectly obvious the forefront when the venues that if you make it impossible for for international gatherings are kidnapped man's family to pay being arranged. Yet from the ransom, and apply the rule without geographical and other stand-fall in any and all kidnapping cases; points Hongkong would appear you are going to take all the profit. to-be-an-ideal contre-for-such means that it will presently cease to out of the crime-which, of course, events. As the headquarters of exist. The practical obstacles in British influence in the Far East the way of such a course, however, also, it would seem fitting that seem pretty big. It will be in this Colony's claims should be teresting to. $20 whether the
Ontario authorities are able, flrat, kept in mind. There is по reason of which we are aware to get the law passed, and, second, why Hongkong should not invite to make it work.
frat
The fall in the birth rate in France so dismayed the French Government that a proposal was brought forward a few years ago to grant plural votes to fathera of large families and to change the wage system so as to put a premium on the largest number of children. Whether as a result of benefits received or owing to change in popular sentiment, or both, the French birth rate has now gone moderately up and from being the lowest in Europe is now higher than in England, Austria, Swedett, Norway, Switzerland and Germany..
France's concern in the birth rate. is nothing new. Napoleon himself was an advocate of a larger population. In 1805 he prepared
decree that every seventh child should be reared at the expense of the State. The decree, however, failed to pass the Legislative Assembly.
Yet in point of mere statistics, it has been estimated that If the present rate of increase continues, the world will have no less than 6,000,000,000 people to feed, clothe and house by the year 2100-lesa Napoleon's unsuccessful attempt than 170 years in the future. to subaidize large families pales That number is regarded as about Into insignificance when compared 18 many as the old earth can with the efforts of two of Europe's comfortably cater for unless its modern dictators-Mussolini ond soil is taught to yield more bounti Hitler. In Italy, not only is there ful crops than it does at present. a tax on bachelors, but the Duce To-dny, however, the total world has offered special inducements to population is only about 1,900,- marry and have children, Recent- 000,000. But, even if the limit of ly, on the occasion expansion should actually be put marriage when 2,000 husbands led at a later date than A. D. 2100, brides to the altar he provided 1,000 lire for each it is nevertheless indisputable that dowries of while populations still tend to in couple as well as sugared al- crease, the world persists in re-monds and a surprise present from maining much the same size. himself. In both Italy and Ger- many, the ruling party makes it a cardinal point of national duty to marry. Any attempt to limit the size of the family is regarded as unpatriotic as well as immoral.
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Since the time of the Rev. T. R. Malthus, whose centenary comes this year, the natural rate of in-
crease has slowed down consider- ably. Indeed, in 1929, Franco and Estonia both recorded a net de erease in their populations. The latest figures, however, alow an annual increase for every country in the world for which statistics
Estonia and Austria,
of a mings
half
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He actually took something over two minutes to dispose of a lon with his bare hands and in a fierce underwater duel with a crocodile. he clocked in the winner at a much slower pace than usun,
Can it be that our splendid Ape Man feels already the advance of age or has the rest of strangling rhinocori left him? Loth though we are to criticise, our idolized Tarzan had recourse to a knlfo' in the process of dispatching a moun tainous rhinocerous last week, and before we know where we are we shall find him using his teeth,
A touching aspect of the Alm wus the tender regard which ele- phants, hippopotami, monkeys, and
atriches displayed for each other and the Secretary of the S.P.C.A. wept copious tears of joy as an ostrich took a monkey on his back in a race for life or death.
It only needed the monkey to offer ten cents for his fare and the event changed to an egg and spoon race for everyone to weep with him.
DUMB-BELLES LETTRES. By Juliet Lowell, Put On Your Brakes, Roger. Liberty Magazine, Gentlemen:
I have received your letter nok- ing why I cancelled my subscrip tion. The reason is because I am stepping out with Alice and that girl sure can keep a guy busy.
Roger B→→→ (signed)
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That girl sure can keep a guy busy.
Mebbe!
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You Is, Ain't You? Little Jack Little, Z.D.W., Hongkong.
Dear Little Jack Little:
Our family is now having an argument. My wife says you are an orchestra leader.. I claim you are a crooker. My daughter Bays, you are neither. Ain't you?
In Germany, between 1900 and 1931, the birth rate sank from 36 per 1,000 to 16 per 1,000. The Poles, although only numerous as the Germans, are increasing at more than twice the rate. If, therefore, numbers are. are available.
regarded as a chief criterion of a The birth rate varies astonish- nation's strength and importance, Ingly in different countries. In it is little to be wondered at that European Russin it was as high Hitler, liko Mussolini, should sub- 1928. In sidize marriages at 1,000 marks na 42.7 por 1,000 in Sweden in the same year it was aplece. The modern German wife There are no later, figures for employment. She is encouraged 16.1; in the United Kingdom, 17.2.is prohibited from accepting paid Russia, but in the other two coun- to regard her right sphere as the trics there has been a further home and her job as rearing a decline, and their figures for 1931 family for the greater glory and were the lowest in Europe. By power of the German Reich. reason of a low mortality rate, In Italy, the latest census re- Editor, however, their net natural in- turns show a considerable pre-
Your dum paper said it would crease was above that of France, ponderance of women over men. be sunny last week. I told you it the Association of Tropical TAKE YOUR CHOICE.
In 1924, the birth rate was 29 per Medicine to hold its conferences
Poland with a net increase of 1,000. Now, in spite of years of would be thunderstorms. It rain- here periodically, nor, for that code that has been tentatively out. 32,000,000 was catching up to is 23.8 per 1,000. And the number believe me maybe.
If Germany adopts the new penni over 470,000 in a population of energetic Fascist propaganda, itd, didn't it? Hereafter, you'll matter, why, for example, the fined, a criminal contenced to death Germany in 1931 at the rate of of marriages has also declined Institute of Pacific Relations would be permitted to take his own
170,000 a year although the total appreciably. With Italy's place fa and such bodies should not fore-life. A guard would leave, a vial of population of Germany was twice the sun dependent, in the view of gather here. Similarly, in the poison and a revolver in the con- as large ду that of Poland, her rulers, on the maintenance of sphere of sport Hongkong would demned cell, and the luckless pri- Russia increased her population the birth rate, these figures are
(Continued on Page 5) be an ideal meeting-place for soner would use whichever method by over 16,000,000 in the years the Far Eastern Olympies. As he preferred to put himself out of things are, this Colony seems to ent from the usage provalent in the world. A procedure so differ- be overlooked in the arranging every civilized country is bound to of such gatherings. It appears seem pretty startling, at to be nobody's business to ad- glance. And yet one could make vance our claims to remem- out a fair sort of case in support brance. The fault-may possibly of it. One of the most ghastly be our own in failing to extend things about capital punishment in. invitations to the organisations that long wait in the death cell be- concerned. If so, we suggest the knowledge, from which the con- tween sentence and execution- that it is high time we shook off demned man cannot escape, that his our sloth and saw to it that the keepers will eventually take him out necessary contacts. are made, and lead him forcibly to the electric The Government might well take chair, the gallows, or the guillotine. the initiative in the case of Many a condemned man, unable to conferences concerning public stand the strain, trica to kill him- health and allied subjects, leav-self; and then prison doctors fight to save his fo, so that it can be ing other spheres to be covered taken from him, later, in the pre- by unofficial organisations. NO. Berived manner. Permitting the thing will, however, be done man to kill himself might actually unless those who realise the le more humane. desirability of Hongkong play- ing the role of host in these informative contributions matters make a definite effort to specialised and popular appeal. advance, the Colony's claim to Periodical Art Exhibitions recognition. The Rotary Club, might also be held, whilst in, the with its emphasis on public realm of music it should not be service, might appropriately in- beyond the bounds of possibility terest itself in the question, and, to arrange periodical festivals as a start, explore the possibility in which representatives from of a conference of all Far various Far Eastern centres Eastern Rotary organisations, could participato. Conferences It is, perhaps, too much to hope on educational problems repro- that gatherings of a type sent another sphere which might similar to those held at the an- well be covered. Hongkong ta nual meetings of the itish often criticlied because of its Association at Home ati I be alleged indifference to cultural convened here, yet thei, must influences. The reproach would be in the Far East many author be removed if some organised itios on various aspects of ato effort were made along the lines who could make useful and indicated.
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