THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY,
AUGUST 16, 1998.
SHOULD WHITE MEN SETTLE IN TROPICAL COUNTRIES?
Science Makes Great Changes Possible
CERTAIN
PRECAUTIONS
MUST BE TAKEN
Whether the white races can settle with impunity in the tropics, not as transients as is customary at present, but as permanent settlers, was discussed at a conference in Holland by Dr. Ch. W. F. Winckel, of Amsterdam.
Conflicting opinions on the possibility of white settle- ment were expressed at the conference, which was attend- cd by Sir Richard Winstedt and other Malayans.
One speaker pointed out that the white population of tropical Queensland lived a healthy and natural life.
Discussing the feasibility of white seillement in the tropics from the medical point of view Dr. Winckel said there was a time when all such questions were answered un- hesitatingly in the negative,
"The troples, it was said, are the natural habitat of the black and the brown races, not of the white," he said.
"These last, it was averred, could, Indiced, hold their own there for a certain number of years, but do so at the risk of shortening their lives ap- preciably,
"If they lved to return to their native land this was ascribed to their good fortune rather than to wisdom on their part. It was not until the end of the 19th century that the ques- tion as to the possibility of acelinn- tisation of the white race in the tropies came to be studied seriously and systematically.
CLIMATE BLAMED
"Hard experience had shown that the troples were death to the white man and it was only after centuries of heavy losses that man discover- ed that much which he had always laid at the door of the climate.' did not really belong there at a and that most of the misery which
4. Proper care must be taken to provide hygienle living condi- tions. Special attention should be paid to food, water and the of waste, though ex- disposal aggeration must be avoided. These
matters should be en- trusted to experts so as to avoid experiments, which often cust much money and many human lives.
HORSES
CAN WEAR MASKS
Folkestone,
of
E. Commander Wing Hodenli, Inspector-General
Rum District A.K.P.. told the Cuancils conference at Folkes- tone that experiments were being
10 protect cattle made domestic animals
raids.
and
nir during
He believed, he said, that gas masks
could be fitted to horses.
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In
Music
Lady Fox-Trot-There's A Calals; Novelty Fox-Trot-The Cho Stranded in a remote, crocodile-infested lake in Cen-colate Soldiers' Daughter....Billy Mr. C. J. Ingham, of Worksop, ask-tral India and surrounded by dense jungle, the Imperial of God had gradually come to be ed whether the danger of burning! included among things which can stay heaps as a guide to enemy pilots Airways flying-boat Ceres, was:
had been considered.
he had previously ascribed to act
be prevented.
Wing Commander Hodsoll replled "First came bacteriology and preto-
the that the matter was receiving expert zoology and showed what are causes of many fatal infectious dis-attemlon. To abolish slag heaps
need 籍 special Act cases, and for a while it seemed as it would tropical hygiene and
of
Towed to deep water by 24 swimmers Sent food and drink by parachute, and
Seen by hundreds of natives who had come from neighbouring parts to look at the "Great White Bird."
Colton and His Band with
trai
Cosa
vocal (from
con-
chorus: Vocal-Cosi Everybody Sing'); The One I Love (from Everybody Sing')....Allan Jones (Tenor) with Orchestra ducted by Nathaniel Shilicret; Polka .Wailer Porsch- The Hobgoblins....
Accomp.); Waltz--Viennese mann (Accordion Solo with Orches Orchestra; Argentine Tangos--Ren- Hearts....Emil Roos and His Salon acimiento: Ambiente Pampino........ tral: Piano Solos-Fidgely Juan Llossus and His Tango Orches-
Rossborough (Haines); Darts and Doubles (Ross (Plano); Quickstep-Maple Leaf Itag 1113 (Schoebel)....Harry Roy and Orchestra.
microbiology Parliament.
"A.R.P. Is not a stunt," he told the were synonymous. Then came diete-
"It is something which, I
Owing to bad weather ahead, Captain E. M. Gurney, on ties, pointing out that there is an-
Sunday, June 12, decided to land on the surface of Lake Dugari, olher contributory factor besides in- delegates. fection involved in the bad reputation am afraid, has come to stay."
an emergency alighting area half-way between Raj Samand and borough)....Patricin There was not the slightest inten- of the tropics, namely wrong diet.
tion, as had been suggested, ofi depriving people in rural areas of Gwalior, and wait until conditions improved. "The liabit of drinking, too, exert-gas masks because country districts ed a bad influence on the white man were less likely to be bombed.
But
DRINK HABIT BAD
in the troples for many years.
In this respect also a great change
FOOD BY PARACHUTE Four passengers were taken ashore,
fo next day
cutch another machine, but the crew of five spent
The tacking of the rural housing the is notierable, due to a new cutlook (problem was urged by Mr. H. A. on life, the advent of women and Elliott, surveyor to the Clun (Salop) the introduction of outdoor sports. Rural District Council.
Although the depression in agricul- "Since 1000 the white man in the
Inck of ropies has been the subject of physio-ture had been an important factor in logical research and an end had been the drift from the land, put to the idea that there was a decent housing was, he said, algo disease called tropical anaemia","
Dr. Winckel said it had been proved fairly conclusively that white settle- ments in the tropics need not neces sarily be temporary, and that not only the individual but also the race ean become acclimatised,
"The white man," he said, can retain
his physical health in the topics, work hard there, transplant' his household here and obey the com- mand: "Be fruitful and multiply," ut this conclunlon is not in accord with current opinions on this subject. Haw can we explain this controversy?
mortals Indies is only
responsible.
Hundreds Of
Lives Saved By
eight days in this wild spot.
fortable in a cabin,
Hi
herself cum-
night, Before "retiring" for the passengers sit down to a five-course dinner while outside crocodiles moved about in the water,
Fire Chief in Pajamas
2.15 Close Down.
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water deep enough for a safe take- oli.
6. Latest Dance and Variety Music. As the 10-ton Ceres was touching
Fox-Trots-Candy Lips; Nobody a soft mud bank she had to be towed with a team of 24 natives waded into Original Washboard Beaters; Waltz the water until it became too deep-Let's Waitz For Old Time's Sake; to deeper water, and Captain Gurney But My Baby....Louis Armstrong's
Two of the passengers, Mr.
to walk, when they all swam, pull-Slow Fox-Trot--I Fall In Love With You Every Day (From 'Swing Tea- to cher Swing)....
...Victor Silvester and Nutives had at first declined on top of the flying boat and another,
enter the crocodile infested water. His Ballroom Orchestra; Voval with Mrs. Thoulness spent Sunday nighting the towing rope with them.
Captain Gurney, therefore, shot two Plano-My Heaven On Earth (From Miss Harvey, made
of the creatures, one of 14ft. and the Start Cheering'); So Little Time.
re Leslie Ilutchinson at the Piano; Vien- other 10ft., and the remainder
nese Orchestra-My DreamWaltz D'Amour (Waldteufel); Aubade treated.
(Mont!)....Edith Lorand, and Her Viennese Orchestra; Vocal--Because I Love You, Bella Lucia!; You Lovely
Herbert Ladies (Bund-Siegel). Groh (Tenor) with Orchestra; Tan- Cincinnati, O.
.Orquesta El Adios.... gos--Paciendin; Spectators at a big fire at a pumipien Francisco Canaro with vocal an refrain: Quicksteps-Swingin' In The company saw Fire Chief James T.
Revels); Doherty of suburban Norwood in an
his Corn (From 'Radio City odd, but simple costume. In
Concila the blaze, Chief Who Stole The Jam? (From 'Sally,
rain Frene and Mary')....Nat hurry to get to
merely donned his
and His Georgians with vocal re- boots If there was such a thing as a trees and planks, Captain Gurney Doherty
frain by Nat Gonella: Orchestra-For of a pair of brightly striped pajamas.
No Reason At All In C (Trumbauer V.C. for animals, "Porky," the pix. and Fiest Omeer Giles made n sur- coat and puited on his
of address is the Ministry
-Beiderbecke); Wringin And Twis- Un' (Trumbauer-Waller)....Fran- whose
Trumbauer with
Bix Beiderbecke kle
their
Three Health Laboratory, Easom, wouldy of the fake to find a stretch
Ed Lang (in certainly deserve it,
Orchestra); Fox-Trot--How Dja Like To Love Me? (From 'Swing Teacher Swing'); Love Walited
'Goldwyn Folles')....Jack (From White and His Collegians; Waltz- (Jos. Strauss-arr, Aquarellen Hohne). ..Orchestra Muscolte,
Porky's Blood
From a medical point of view, Dr. Winckel said, there, was no reason whatever why white colony should hold its own even in a to not be able coastal region in the tropics, if only tion, certain precautionary measures were insisted on. These included:
DEATH RATE DROPS "Only a century ago the death rate among Europeans in Batavia was more than 200 per 1,000 annually, whereas
Porky has given his blood to save statistics show that at present the the
hundreds of human lives. among Europeans in
a trife
He is just an ordinary, common- Porky allows to feed higher than in Holland, and not hig-or-garden pig, but her than in many countries in Europe 10,000 hungry mosquitoes generally, that the birth rate among upon him and he never complains.
An official of the Ministry of them is very satisfactory and that even infant mortality is not necessarily high Health's mosquito farm explained:
In 1933 a special kind of mosquito in the tropics."
was caught in Kent. From this mosquito 27,000 others were bred in the laboratory.
To maintain the mosquito popula- blood essential. That's where Porky comes in.
Every 43 hours, 10,000 mosquitoes swarm out of their boxes and make a meal of Porky.
ja
Karachi and other stations, worn- ed of the Ceres temporary plight, dropped extra food and water sup- plies by parachute from other flying boats operating on the usual services. IMPROVISED RAFT
On a raft improvised with plantain
PROFIT-SHARING
ever
FOR FILM STARS
Hollywood.
Mr. Myron Selznick, the millionaire' Hollywood agent, is planning the formation of a huge new Hollywood producing ns his active production company with Ernst Lubitsch associate. The proposed new company would pay its stars on a profit-sharing basis,
that this 1. The region chosen must be free
Mr. Selznick believes from malaria and the like, or
They are infected with matarlo.would give them better terms than must be such that epidemics, if
are now offered by the major Holly- present, can be eradicated with- but Porky is now immune.
Malaria out too great expense.
infected mosquitoes," wood studios, when several of which
a region in which there is little treatment of general paralysis of the on behalf of his famous star plan. or no autochthonous population, Insane Patients are bliten by the
so as to minimize
the danger mosquitoes zo that
2. A settlement should be made in sold the official, "are used for the he has recently wasted a bitter war This has led recently to un open and Darryl they contract breach between him from those wells of virus forn-malaria fever under careful control, Zanuck, who refused to employ any ed by native tropical peoples, and the effect is to kill the organism star managed by Mr. Selznick.
causes the Mr. Selznick's answer will be to who in this respect still live in on the bruin which
free his store as far as possible from paralysis."
their long-term contracts, panco Alms himself, and pay them on co- operative lines.
the dark ages.
3. The colonists must constat of
young
married couples with their children. They must be willing
to work and be free from her- factors which would editary
hinder the development of the
by introducing
It's Littlo World
Chardon, O. Ruth Cottam, a high school student, now into it. The while corresponding with a pupil tn deficient number
of families must not be Austein received a picture, published too small, for inbreeding must in an Austrian newspaper, of Myra be guarded against and there Perry and Vira Adams, 70-year-old muat be enough people to pro-Huntsburg, O., twins. Mrs. Perry la social clement 60 Ruth's grandmother and her picture vide the
was taken at the last Chardon maple necessary for the proper func- toning of life, in a community, festival
PICK OF THE STARS Ho already controls the pick of the big stars, including Carola Lombard, Clark Gable. Myrna Loy, William Powell, Fredric March, Basil Rathbone, Lorelia Janet Young. Tyrane Power. Gaynor, and Errol Flynn. Mr. Sciznick proposes to interest other important agents, especially:
Harry Eddington, manager of Greta Garbo and Ann Harding.
William Hawks, manager of Ronald
Colmun;
Charlle Feldman, manager of Irene Dunne and Claudelle Colbert; and
manager of Joan Milko C. Leyer, Crawford and Frunchot Tone.
of manager Leland Hayward, Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis, is already interested.
If the agents mentioned join the scheme it would draw from other produces almost all the biggest es- tablished box-office stars.
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7 Closing Local Stock Quotations. 7.02 Gilbert and Sullivan Excerpts,
Princess Ida-Selecion
New Light Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sorgent; The Pirates Of Penzance": Pour O Pour. The Pirate Sherry....Stuart Robertson and Male Chorus; When Fredric Was A Little Lad....Dorn- thy Gill.
7.16 Mozart Concerto In E Flat Major, K. 271:
Gieseking Walter Played by (Piano) and Members of The State Opera House Orchestra, Berlin, con- ducted by Ilans Rosbaud.
7.45 A commentary on the return Cricket Match between Monksbury Parva and Chorlton cumWinterly 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Military Band Music,
.The Americana (Turban) Band Of H. M. Coldstream Guards condurted by Lieut. J. C. Windram;
...
Dance Of The Flowers-Valse (From
"Le Corsaire Ballet"-Delibea). Woodstock. N. D. "Thirty days." sighed the judge, The B. B. C. Wireless Military Band local conducted by B. Walton O'Donnell. when itarry Thornton,
8.15 London Relay Selence and character, appeared in court for the fourth time in four months. Thern- the Pabile',
The British Association at Work; ton has spent only four days freedom
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