THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 11, 1934.
ENCOURAGING INVENTORS
REDUCED INCOME
TAX URGED
FOLLOWING KAISER'S
EXAMPLE
What is wanted to stimuintes industry at present in this country is a little of the spirit which per moated Germany in pre-war days, when, under the personal stimuln. tion of the Kulser, inventors were encouraged to the utmost."
So declared Professor Sir James | B. Henderson in his address to the Engineering Section of the British Association at Aberdeen recently.
"The spirit seems to be reviving In Germany now, as I met a Ger- man a few months ago when had come here to sell the British rights of a dozen German Juventloas of different types," he continued.
"Every invention introduced here from abroad means a loss to) this country of the capital repres senting foreign rights, and al- though it is advisable in the) interests of employment to intro- duce all new inventions of merit, it is highly desirable to give pres ference to our
Juventors. They have always been leaders in Invention, and i feel that it only needs about half the implan which has been given to reschrea.. to be given to the development of inventions to ensure a consider ablo Acceleration in eronomic recovery.
Con
"One possible method of achiev ing the desired result would be for the State to agree to forge Income-tax upon the expenditure! upon all scientific research and development up to the commerofal
luge.
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"Such an artion would be most gratifying recognition the Government of the part which Inventors have played in establish- ing our industries, it would move many of the anomalies which exist at present, and it would have a very stimulating effect upon the Introduction of new industries,"
INEVITABLE PROCESS.
Every second counța în apreading contas. Here in the Rainbow', processional crew working to hoist the giant mainsail.
BETTER BEVERAGE
THAN TEA
South America's Refreshment
NOW KNOWN IN EUROPE.
A description of a South Amer
Sir James said that a monteur swan beverage known as perhet netts given to the Anthropology reflection on the part of anyone was
lą Captain T. A dogen,, conversant with industrial history (Seetion would show that mass production | Deputy Keeper. Department of was not the sudden and rullend Ethnography, British Museons, in creation of
buf jeura.
his presidential address. simply the inevitable outcome of a Thousand and one inventions of
recent
the last century a result which admittedly was hastened by War. but which
heen would have achiored within a comparatively short time even if there had been no war at all.
our
"Engineers." said Sir James "will agree that there are many potential new industries yi
records UE dormant in the Patenta Omer divided into 136 different classes. Can nothing he done to stimulate the development of some of these?"
Ho aid that the intanton was procured from the leases and shoots o the fer paragonyensis, a shrub Indigenous to Paraguay and Southern Brazil.
After a process
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STEP AGAINST
JAPAN
NO
INTIMIDATION TOLERATED
D.E.I. ACTION
Amsterdam, 47cl. 10, Holland his taken strong men- Esures to suppress any intimdat on
by Japanese in Java.
The authorities
in
captain to take him back to Japan. Holland claimed that the Japan- While reports from Batavia in- ese were undercutting freight diente that trade relations be prices and setting up unfair com- Taween the two countries have im-petition. It is now generally ex- proved, this condition of affairs pected that Japan will en-operate was only brought about by sharp in altering this situation.
tam où the part of the Dutch.
FEAR PENETRATION. Treble was caused by the for
Helland has long been appres Godin by Japanese merchants
of Japanese "pesertúl Mading in the Dutch possessions, husive
the Dutch East "Pglegy Asuriation," whieh penetration" in armet at boding the market with indies. The islands have a native with Japonese pottery, so that the im- population of fifty million Copters would ilemad A larger, apunta.
"
is a handful of Hollanders to Ignyert them, making it particular- by easy for foreign encroachment. diately this became known, The Dutch part of Nuw Guloeg in the Netherlands Indies Governe | so vulnerable in this respect, that
i pored som instituted a quota system for Holland has been strenuously in Japanese journalist for writing
Ja tiene pottery. The imposition opposing Japanese plans to allegedly insulting artfest
of the weat was followed by arrange for large seitlements of Dutch East Indies papers, and, aferent pentsats from the Japan- its nationals la that part of the temporary quota was pl. vel on the www, but the outcome was that the Indies. imports of Japanese jittery, until asciation was so completely dis- the Japanese importere di banded solved that it removed all damer their combine,
in the Thy teh trade policy in the Taki, the journalist, did not take pear indlin, his explusion perecably. He went on a hunger strike in Surabaya,
The recem announcement that the Standard Uit and Lutch Shell Companies have decided to parti- elgate in the exploitation of the In trade disenssions b. tween the petroleum fields there, has tended to give the Dutch an easier feeling unded the Japanese to include the regarding their Eastern posses- all-important shipping problem.sians.--United Press,
d drying, nides by fire, hot water and frauded the captain of two governments, the Dutch per- was poured on the broken or pow. Japanese ship to refuse to carry dered leaf, and the Infusion was him. The authorities forced this imbibed through a tube of silver or of native bambu.
From the centre of ita origin it spread rapidly, like all valunble food products, to Argentina, Chile, and Peru, and, especially since the war, when many South American contin gents were engaged it had become more familiar in Europe than for merly.
the
He addest:--"I have every sympathy with research and pros paganda in its favour, but it does not seem to be sufficiently np. preciated that the research af to- day is looking after the industry
The particular virtue of of ten or more years hence, wheres as the propaganda of economic drink was that it contained little or no tannin, combined favourably recovery les more in the develop ment of inventions lying dormant with a neat diet, and could be re- peatedly refreshed by hot water in our Patent Office records.
In "It is easy to be wise after the without deleterious effects. event, but think for a moment of South America, especially amongst the enormous difference it would the Gauche class, it used to take the have made to the cotton industry places of fruit and vegetables, for it was an antiscorbutie of con-
If uncreкsable fibre had been developed and ready for the mursiderable value, Mixed with cold
water it provided a very refreshing
kei in 1919. This new industry beverage, but the normal method of is only now in its infancy. What taking the drink was in the hot In- will. It be twenty-five years henge? fusion. When lukewarm it was re-
garded as a vialent aperiunt.
INVENTIONS IN DEMAND,
Two appliances were used, the
"It is generally thought, he milded, "that Industries are on the lookout for new inventions, but fe, a gourd or silver cup in the type of invention which chiefly which the decoction was prepared, interents them is one, which will and a tube, the bombilla, through reduce their working costs and which the infusion was drunk. which generally lead to increased The word for the receptacle inte) unemployment. This has been al. fecame transferred to the leaf and most the only type of invention for the drink; both were now generally which there has been a demand own under that name, especially since the war, Industry
in Europe. essentially a commerent concern, and its leaders are commercial men interested in their dividends
CARDIAC AND NUTRITIVE.
It might be concluded that the
and in conserving their capital. Faction of the infusion would be that ! except in so far as it can increase of a cardiac and 'xutritive, while ' their output.
the relatively small proportion of } Assuming a capitalist desires tannin would render It more to become a promoter of inven-digestible than ten, tlons, and has no technical know-
ledge to guide him, how is he to the question of the actual discovery To leave aside for. the mument decide out of thousands of in- ventions which he is to select? In of the properties of yerba mate, the the past the lluk of inventor and initial exploitation of the "Lea" promoter has been left to chance, was undoubtedly due to the Jesult is it not possible to organise this puissionarles. On the expulsion of connection for the good of the the desults, their mission houses industry of the country sa na to and lands became Crown property, stimulate employment to the and the mate industry had become maximum?
Ho prosperous that, in 1807, the "Already one step has been profits derived from it were reckon-
ed at £100,000-annually.- taken in this direction. The Council of the Institution of However, the Handbook of Para- Mechanical Engineers has recent-guay (1894) stated that the Jesult ly appointed, a committee to act attempts were so successful that as the link to introduce its mem-at Santiago (Paraguay) there once bera who are inventors to pro- | existed a grove of 20,000 trees. moters with capital. Such a link |On the explusion of the Josulta would be very useful, not only for these plantations disappeared, and the purpose of Introduction, but only bi recent years had successful
also to act as arbitrators in anyerbules been established in the
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disputes which might arise during Misiones territory of North-East-Aloft slionid zi o lindéennes sa ale runs against the Rainbow for the America's Cup, this tamen can say ho has the development.”
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