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Food For Thought
On Wednesday afternoon Un- official Members of the Legisi Įlative Council withheld approval militional vote of $62,000 10 feed prisoners in Hongkong .grols until the end of the year. in. Ispite of the fact, that the Govern-
ment is under contract to pay ut the rate of $11.50 per person per {month. It was intimated by the
Colonial
Secretary that the Nutrition Commission is going Into the matter of prisoners' food' very deeply, and that for that reason the Inquiry into costs is being held up. The fact that the Council left over the $62,000 vote means nothing, for, as Mr. Caine, Financial Secretary and Colonial Treasurer, sald: "The costs have to be met. They are
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HOW is the
EMPIRE?
"ELL, if you're
honest,
WE
the
answer is--not so good. For things are happening in the Empire that just don't happen when the body politic is healthy.
Don't worry about the Dominions. They are able to look after themselves-and are doing it so effectively that some places labour is better organised, and wages are higher, than here at home.
It is the Crown Colonies, the smidler British possessions,
in
which provide such cause for worry that three quite separate Commissions of Inquiry are now investigating Inbour unrest,
And even those Commissions of Inquiry were refused until discontent, which had been simmering for months past, bollet over when workers demanding wage Increases clashed with the police and forced the hands of the authori- tles,
Riots, it seems, were neces-
before ulry
the authorities
would listen to reason.
A
ND there bave been
rlets in plenty. In the magnificently wooded 1ste of Trinidad employers' in- difference to workpcopic's claims set loose the fury at the mob. Street Aghting caused cleven deaths.
In Barbados, struggling to main- lala a population of 1,000 to the square mile, six more were killed in hand-to-hand battles in the streets which lasted for 30 hours.
On the
sugar plantations of Mauritius, in the sugar factories and on the docks men have ceased work to adopt violent tactics as restrained appeals for improved conditions have gone unheeded.
In Jamalça boatmen and trans- port workers have been striking for a minimum wage. In coral-girt Inagua. in the Caribbean Sea. natives have risen, too: and pro- duced. the pretty spectacle of a British Commissioner beating a hasty retreat in a small boat.
All these strikers are, according to the dogmatists of the Right. paid ngitators all the way from Moscow. provoking the innocent and ignorant to disorder.
F course, it is true that among the strikers are There some redheads, always are. But a vast majority are ordinary, decent living people, black and white, asking for little more than slightly higher wages and slightly fewer working hours.
When you know how they live you wonder that the strikes and rlots have been so long postponed. In 'Trinidad 40,000 workers
Today's Thought
PEACE cannot be kept by
force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
ALBERT EINSTEIN.
OUTPOST
Picture postcard view:
earned an average of 18.0d. a day and that only during seasonal periods-working for the ol and sugar kings.
The Dovernor of Trialdad, str Arthur Murclitson Fletcher-who hopes that he will not be desig- nated a turbulent person "-says frankly that "the standard of lying. the state of nutrition among many of the workers in the very lowest I have witnessed."
T hardly could be other- wise.
In these Islands the workpeople live on precious little more than bread frult and water-a dlet not exactly overloaded with vitamins.
And even the bread fraft has not Ευτ been too plentiful of hic, while the cost of living.ins soared throughout the Colonial Empire. wages have remained virtusily un- changed, working hours long and arduous.
1
Unheeded, that spells trouble. Hence, the riots in Trinidad. Hence the mob violence in Mauri- tius where wages are a low as Bd. day, and where old age pen- sions.
health insuraec, trade union and parliamentary repre- sentation are unheard of. * ! 3
a
Social services? The term is utterly unknown. Democratic franchise? Well, in Mauritus the population totals neaty 400,000: and in the last elections electors numbered fewer than 18,000.
No votes, no social services, long hours, low pay, none of the legiti mate opportunities of ecuring re-
But there is another side.
Unofficials, hended by the Hon. J. J. Paterson, were sharply critical of the prison food con- "Tract," and with 'renson, I was Mr. Paterson who pointed out that; Government was paying $11.50 a month for each inmate. Anyone "with any experience of servants or Chinese employees in Ilongkong, is well aware that the average adult can live quite com- fortably on 86 per month for food. Cooles working for 20 cents a day, without any of the amenities that go with prison life, manage to keep healthy. A
NACH year 1 servant's food allowance in a EAS
man an interested Now this is no casy matter, us the spectator of a battle royal be-sparrows get reinforcements to deferid private household is generally tween swifts and sparrows. it hup their territory. I notferd the spar- about $6 a month, and sometimes pens thus.
rows are no match in conbat for the less. A family of five can live on Under the eaves of my bedroom swifts, as the long. powerful wings, $20 decently. Just why prisoners window in a quiet Border town there short legs, and murderous claws of the swift make him a formidable an- are several nesting holes, the usual ingonist. Great was the hubbab require almost twice the amount summer resort of three pairs of with fluff and feathers flying. the needed to feed the average swifts. Before the swifts arrive from shricking of the swilts, and the jib- worker in Ilongkong may be dis-overscus the sparrows are in posses bering of the sparrows. closed by the pending investiga-No sooner had the swifts arrived than Complete Rout
sion and busy rearing their broods.
tion.
Isolation Hospital
BATTLES IN BIRDLAND.
they started ejecting the sparrows pell-meli.
drem for their grievances-you see the intense dissatisfaction which is the real background to disorder.
What to do about it?
Well, is trace the Duke of Mon- trose has told the Government one way of coping with the situa-
tion.
"Form a defence force for Trini- dad," he said," and station a man- of-war and part of the Fleet Air Arm in the Harbour."
That's the way that's the way If you want more wild rioting and bloody battles in the streets, Jí you want to perpetuate a grim under- current of discontent which every so often will flare up into some- thing even men-of-war and parts of the Best Air Arm cun't stop.
Another way seeran almpler, In Waltehall there is the Colo-
by
S. E. R. WYNNE
nial Omce, from which are ruled 60,000,000 people, mostly coloured, mostly voteicas - the disfran- chised millions who popuinte those outposts of Empire you hear so mue about.
You would think that the Colo- nint Dilice would be denting with the altuation. You would think It possessed a Labour Department,. keeping abreast with the funda-
mental changes taking place
the
Colonies: throughout
the
rapid development of exploitation, the new industiintaxilen, the break-up of the old trļbai itfe.
“HERE is no atteli Depart-
T
ment. There is an Inter departmental Committee which deals with odd problems as and when they arise-a committee of Civil servants from various Ministries, which has made nome
drafted useful inquiries,
sonio useful ordinances.
But it is hardly adequate. Some- tising much more representative. of men who know the technical and practical problems of the Colonies, of men experienced in labour legislation and trade union organisation-that 15 wint is
nceded.
And within a Labour Depart- ment they could get to work: in- sulating minimum wage laws and- the Inspection of labour conditions now ao rare, establishing minimum standards for health, producing some sort of order from the chaos in which a new social environment is being created.
For these things the Empire's forgotten men appeal. To deny them means to continue repres- sive legislation, to make free association still more diMcult, to increase the growth of scdition ordinances.
And that in turn means mote- riots in Mauritius, more street battles in Trinidad.
A Physician discusses ä
KEEP-FIT
VITAMIN
FRESH fruits and vegetables in variety are harder la come by during the winter, but provided that oranges and lemons, which are plen- ful, are used as substitutes, по hara will result from a lack of those important articles of diet,
These fruits are importatil becauße they contain Vitamin G. Nowadays ond seldom see! enses of scurvy, ex- cept in infants, yet this disease a océssioned by lack of thai vitamin.
I should be remembered, however, that if your diet contains too little, your health will suffer, Scurvy is not a skin disease, although the skin and the lining: membrane of the mouth and Es suffer.
In acute cases, pains in the joints, swelling of the limbs, great weakness and bleeding take place. In infanti, lack of Vitamin C causes pallor of the skin, Ireliabness and loss of weight,
Mild canes of vitamin deßelency Usually show signs of pyorrhæa, and khi lên là Decorno Soure 20 cm là slow in sealing after a wound.
Long before this vitamin was even tiuught of., enses of survy used to break out amongst sailom engaged on
lang voyages, for in these cinys-the ing fruits and vegetables were avant. fifeenth century-facilities for ator-
Safeguards at Sca
represents the minimum necessary, for one day's supply.
The housewife should remember lint
Vitamin O is destroyed by heat. If any of the above foods need to be
cooked, brick boiling for a short period is least likely to do harm.
Dis the action of oxygen which cam- ages the vitamin. If you allow truft or vegetables to simnier the oxygen la not driven off quickly enough. It' remains in contact with the food under jucal conditions of warmth unul it canken destruction.
The same effect takes pince when you add soda to the water in which vegetables are bolles. This chemical preserves the colour, but does harm.
Bo, too, with milk, the staple diet of the infant. When milk has been pas- teurined it loosen a good deal of Vilainin C. And when chemicals like citrate are added to make it more easily digested, the same thing happens.
Baby's Daily Dose
That is why infants are liable to scurvy, and why it is advisable to give daily doses of orange juice to make good such deficiency.
Oxygen acting on fruita and vege tables aliko destroya Vilamin D. Prezlı orange Julce every morning, which is no necessary for the infant, and so wood for adulta, lag, should always be inade just before it is required.
No sooner had the swifts ejected the sparrows than they began pulling It has been the practice in the such an institution is not im-out their nests-straws, feathers, and past when a patient at Kowloon mediate, it is impossible to tell "ggs being strewn upon the ground. hospital required to be isolated when the emergency will be he erstwhile cheeky sporrows, foll- ed, beat a busly rétrest. Now the that one of the private rooms upon us. The cost of a big in- ewitts are in undisputed possession, was used. Such a system, where|fectious diseases hospital, prob- busy with their broods. private rooms are plentiful and ably between $100,000 and $200 the Market place a huge heron loon One day, while I was standing in the patient is not suffering from 000, is more than Government ised in sight. As it near the Abbey one of the more dangerous, or willing to afford at present. But Tower n platoon of Jackdaws who what might be called "violent" little six-bed isolation ward at make this their castle, sallied forth diseases, is reasonably satisfac-Kowloon, and the 50 beds at and gave battle to the bordly heron. Some circled round him, others at tory. But the system was parti-Kennedy Town are not going to tacked viciously. The attacking It was, noticed, however, that when cularly unsatisfactory in Kow-be of much use in dealing with party pursued him up the Jed water- the crew were given daily doses of loon because of the dearth of an epidemic of the future. When gate, where the heron was beaten to
orange or lemon juice they did not de private room space-there are it is considered that 320 beds in earth. What the cause of the attack velop the disease. Research hins gone
was one enn only conjure."
-ahead since then, and it has now been only six available. The passing G.C.H. were occupied when the Crossing a meadow recently I was
established that the real enuse
To sum up: Everyone should have of the vote for $9,500, with cholera epidemic was at its peak, intrigued by the calls and aerial co- Deurvy is lack of Vitamin C.
fresh fruit and vegetables daily, It which to build an isolation block the importance of early legislations of
a flock of giden ploverruils
This vitamin is brenent a freshfrent varieties nm difficult to get
vegetables" "In ́· varying cause was apprent,
during the sunless days of winter, at Kowloon comes under the tlon in respect to new infections
tinta. The greatest are, to be sparrow-hawis hovered overlicad. found in lemons, oranges, grape fruit,
omges and lemons may be had at all heading of essential legislation. diseases quarters is readily per- it was surprising to see these "harrn-plach, watercrest, uit cabbage..
times, and are just na váluable. As a matter of fact $7,500 was ceived. The old G.C.H. has out-less" birds form into mas lennation Then, in order of richness, come to voted for this work, previously, lived its days of usefulness, as and drive the hawk from their breed.matoen, fresh pineapple, green peas, robin's fight
ing grounds. and yesterday's item was the the, medical authorities' will be
same
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It is up good preparing it overnight in order to save time in the morning. Expared to the air it will lose much of ita value. The fact that apples turn brown when cut la due to the action. of oxygen.
And that the most inoffensive of our smaller birds will at times thoiv
for territorial right nni swedo turnips.
Ond day I came upon u pair at death Drapes that popular lihvalid fruit one, with $2,000 extra the first to admit. It should be Magpie v. Crow
contain little vitamin O, it requiring grips, When I released them they added, for it was found that the torn down. Nevertheless, it
14 paris of grape juice to one of orange were gasping and oil blood-bespalter- first plans were not sufficiently was a blessing that this old { There is an old elm tree I know Juke to produce equal amounts of theed, totally knocked out with, their
One ourice of orange juico grim fight. extensive. They did not include building stood vacant to receive well, sacred to the magple. Ifere vitamin. a kitchen and linen closet..、 the sufferers in Hongkong's most these Incorrigible rogues rear their
But the isolation block at recent epidemic. This Colony. Progeny, giving the writer no end of making a weird sound. This violent fight. Even the delightful little hiuc
anusement by their aniles. Kowloon is only a small and cannot afford to be unprepared One morning a pair of crows carne assault was too much even for the tit will peck and hiss when your hand temporary affair. It does not for such visitations in the future. nosing around the tree. From their helly crows, and they fled precipitate-invades its nest. Their capacity for sell-defence Is a noble aftribute, for for a moment remove the neces- Until a new hospital is available, tower the magpies sallied with start from thele tormentors.
Among our smaller birds the robin Nature has decreed that hot cannot sity for an Infectious Diseases presumably, the G.C.II. must with all the force of bour, wings, and is the most pugnacious. He is no defend itself is not worth preserving.
J.Turnbull Altken Hospital, and while the need, for serye.
fect, the cries of the combotarits member of the peaco Bocloty, How
ling suddenness and set upon them