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THE STRAITS CHINESE.

ARE THEY DEGKKERATING

In the Straits Chinese Literary Association Recorder for May-June, Mr. Lee Fong Fam writes thus about his fellow-citimaZE—-~

SERS LOVERS SHOT.

FAIGHT TO AVEID SCANDAL

SHAPES OF SOUNDS,

GRAMOFFONT SECRETS

EXPLAINED..

The mysterione death of Captais- Robinot Mary, a prominent young of Medtrical Engineering in the "Professor J. A. Fleming, Profesor Frisch Army officer who was report- Univerity of London, continuing hia ed to have coinmitted suicide a month) Christosas lectures to à juvenils ago, is providing Faris with a puszkanience at the Royal Institution on Inijack of - “Electric Waves The question is often neked, “* Why

ing discussion.

Roth Wipele Talaphony,” pointed is it that the present generation of

It was stated that the police owing

air resisted when Straita Chinase in so far behind the to further information, had decided compressed. They knew that by the China-born Chinese, and lacks the to reopen their investigations. Two force one had to exert whet enterprise, energy and business in-mystery women, both married, on pamping up the type of a tegrity that are the characteristics of dark and the other fair, were report bicycle. Air also had mass or the Chinese people!" It would ad to have been concerned in the weight, and when' set in motion con- Occupy too mach грабе to affair, and the theory that they might tinned to move The air in that enummerade - ali the Tone Df know exactly how the captain met theatre, he said, "had a weight of SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY deterioration, but we will his death was put forward.

nearly four tons. When a saddan mention only a few. One of the chief reasons why the majority of our Fong Straits Chinese join the European mercantile office is that the education they get at the school only fits them for the clerical line. We ware present at a debate held at the Y.M. U. A. Hall some time age as the subject," Are we getting the right kind of education and one

SERIOUS LACK OF WORK.

paths, homeopaths, eclectics, or other under constraction 706,000 tons are schools of healing, the regular" fax constructed that they are actually doctors in New York are fighting a great battle-to parent the New York in the water, while

$2,000

identified the women, whose names wave of compresion was propagated The detective it is stated, has explosion occurred a hemispherical are kept secret, and taken statements outwards. Although we could not from them. Three statements, it see there compression waves in the added, have convinced the police that air we could photograph them, be-

Explaining the state of the ship In an effort to protect the America building trade in connection with the

their theory was correct and that these the highly compressed air benki». Laquirion are still proceeding. young officer voluntarily shot himself. the rays of light a little. Hence we pablic, the vast majority of whem reduction of the war bonuses, the

could take mapshot photographs of seem rather indifferent as to whether | Compendiaan points out the startling

The elder man, the dark-haired an air wave produced by an electric their ailments are treated by allo-fact that of the 1,619,000 tons now of the speakers on the negative one, who, it is stated, bad for some spark, by the aid of the light off so ride made the remark that the is said to be in a parsing home sufferate by means of the Cladni die and

time been the mistress of the captain.

another spark. schools are manufacturing clerks for ing from appendicitis. She told a

The profesor proceeded to demon-

the mercantile offices. That such a police magistrate that on March diagrams the mature and velocity of Sie statement is true. no one will deny.11. when the exptain died, chand. Ouits the most interesting of | State Legislature from giving "allahiro-practically ready for launching. It is most regrettable that the was paying him visit. She had his experiments were those with the practors now in business" the same Thus, there is only, in strict fact, Government of the Straits Settlements come to tell him that she intended to phaseidoscope, which showed that standing & is accorded to physician 800,000 tons on which wackmen other has abolished the Queen's Scholar- and surgeons in the treatment of dis

ship. What the Queen's Scholarships

break with him and to request him the loudness of sound was de ease. Both sides appeal to the public than the finishing trades

can be have done for some of our strips not to write to her or try to see her permined by height of wave, pitch by through the newspaper press; both employed. Further, that, taking the Chinese. every one knows. The two

wave length, and quality by wavH again. sides hold meetings to end pable year ended March last, the total ham-shining lights in our community are cited, the woman aid, and, saving film any music or speech. Every form They could by this instra- Captain Robinot Marcy became er support. New charges against the ber of vessels commenced was 88, Queen's Scholars. Then there is that he could not live without her sound had a shape which could be ment photograph on a moving chiropractors, or "spine thumpers," whereas in the quarter ended March, another reason why we are deteriora took a revolver from his desk and as they are jocularly called in the 1921, these were 99, and in the ting. Some our forefathers, when United States, are hurled daily by the quarter immediately proceeding that they came to the Straits to look hot himself. Frightened at the expressed by a fine. In the case of #regular" medical societies, who cite the number was 148, or nearly twice for fortune, did not bring their did not wait to see whether he was Scandal that might result, the woman cases of hardy young men with per fært spinal columns being transformed into human wrecks by chiropractor who, a few months ago, were usefully engaged as chanteurs, gardeners, or mechanics. In reply, the chiroprac- tars, through their unions, say they have achieved sach success in the way

of the adjustment of the vertebre

become jealous.

· £30,000 Racehorse.

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as many as in the whole of last year. womenfolk with them, and dead but rushed from the fiat. In so

If we go back to the boom period married the Malay women of the

doing she dropped the white glove the fading of which in the flat led the police to renew inquiries.

When she got home she could not

wave form was simple harmonic pure-musical sounds like those of open organ pipe, of tomingfork, the

curve. In music, when one note gave twice as many vibrations as another, we called the interval of these notes an octave. The highest naa archentrs gave shout £000 vikestirme, a second, or a Sin werq. What we esl-

of a year earlier, and take the Marsh place. As we all know, the Malays quarter of 1920 we find 229 vessels are an idle race, and do not care much commenced, which is nearly thres for the future, so long as they can eat times the whole of the past year, and work. Sleep and die peacefully. It is over nine times as many as in the therefore apparent that the mixture rest mat she kow what had happen first quarter of this year. From April of Malay blood in our veins scenuated and the axed a-friend to go toled a gramophone record was a hard, 1, 1998 to March 11, 1929, the new for our being unambitious, and we. This friend, the fair haired circular dise, with a spiral groove on

it

in US,

and care only for themselves, and the saddest thing of all is that we have so unity at all. How can our future

BOAD TO BUMINA Another reason is that in "auch a

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corresponded to the wave form of the speech or sound. -- From the soft | disc hard copies were prepared called records. These were rotated under a

lever which carried a needle of jewel and created vibrations of a mics dise which reproduced with marvellous fidelity the sounds.

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amount of work, and who is capable as the Europes". Whats sad thing it is that equal treatment is not given by the Straits Chinese to their own people!. If we were to enumerate all the reasons why cur future as a community is not bright, we think they would fill page. We have only attempted to point out a few, and we think they are enough. | better name of stentorphone.

TEL/WOMEN'S FARE.

womenfolk.

of Chinese.

In conclusion the professor showed and explained Bir Charles Parson's autophone, which Meats. Creed manufactured and oiled by the

'PHONE PAUL PRYS.

WHY LISTENING GOES ON.

"Listening to "to conservations on the telephone by operators was dis Cassed at the resumed annual con frence of the Union Port Office

Workers at Cheltenham.

TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1922.

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A large consignment of these useful articles_

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$2.50 each.

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WOMAN AMONG CANNIBALS.

PRISONERS TORTURED AND EATEN.

Talking of the Papuana, Mim Grimshaw- ssid that thers were a number of people who profemed occult powers in New Guinea. They had

"Sorcerent University," at which natives studied for two years, and she had seen much hypnotism and con- juring practised, "

as

The condition of the woman is bad,

they do all the heavy work and are really slaves, and yet it is the women who do the proposing The price of

nice gitt is about seven pigs,

that the old-fashioned doctors have tonnage laid down smounted to but are in many ways following their lazy Woman, called at the fist and was put it. It was prepared from soft little over 200,000 tons. This is the habits. It is said that as a communi- by the police magistrate who had record dise in the following way: lowest total on recced. In 1908, they are have no sympathy with been summoned to investigate the re- The singer or speaker sang or spots One of the most interesting civil worst pre war year, the tonnage laid one another, there is no public spirit Ported aicide. He showed her the to a dise or tempen on the back trish in the history of sport in New down was four times as great a

the rich are scifia body of the dead man and seked her of which was cutting tool. This York ended in i Supreme Court during the last twee months,

why she had come. She stated that tool was made to travel in a spiral at Brooklyn, when a jury found a It is an alarming fact that in the

the captain had telephoned her over a diss of roft was, and it out in verdict in favour of Mr. Harry Sinclair, last year we have opmpleted eight

adier in the day asking her to visit its little ditch or groove. At the who sued Mr. James Johnson for times sa much tonnage se we have a community he bright when we do. She gave a false name and ad- tympanom vibrated the tool cut Etile Moreover during the not work in harmony with, but see the fact that the captain had not of the groove the outline of which dress, and polies inquiries revealed indentations on the bottom or ide the recovery of the purchase price of commenced. the racehorse Papisllow, brother of past quarter, things have been so had to regard, one another with jealousy used his telephone that day- Man-of-War, on the ground that Play, in this respect that Great Britain has and suspicion! fellow was

windancker and lost its lead, only 51,008 tons having cribber." The verdict, which award been commenced in the United King ed Mr. Sinclair £20,000, the full dom, as compared with 67.200 ton cosmopolitan city as Singapore, vice amount of the purchase price, was abroad. With these figures in view and pleasure go hand in hand. The surprising climax to a case simont can hardly occasion surprise even to large number of bad houses and the unprecedented in the jurisprudence of find that to-day, according to reliable ever increasing number of cinema New York. Justice Cropsey, in his information, only 21 per cent of the halls and other places of pleasure, are charge to the jury, declared that shipbuilding berths of the country are great temptations to our young Straits when a man sell a horse he does occupied with ships upon which work Chinese to indul in a life of dissipa- not have to tell all he knows about is proceeding, and that 16 per cent of tion and vice, and waste their time in the animal or to tell anything, and in the berth are occupied by abips upon enjoyment which might be spent such a case the bayer must take just which the work has been suspended, profitably in other ways. As we what he gets. But if you find that while 63 per cent of the berths have have already said. HADY of Mr. Johnson made any representation no work on them at all, and there is our young Straits Chinese join the When we deal with the fature of a it will be for you to say whether they nothing to lay down on them.

European mercantile office after people, we must not lose sight of the were true or false.” Me: Sinclair sued In such circumstances unemploy, leaving school. Have they any part which the women play, and so on the ground of breach of warranty, ment has naturally grown space; st chance of being the Manager after this article would be incomplete with and that by knowingly selling present the unemployment in the working for a number of years! No, out some reference being made to our "wind-encking" horse defendant industry is as high as 50 per cent, the chances are absolutely nil

Many of our Suite violated the rules of honesty and fair taking all the shipyard trades into Even if they were to work for 100 Chinese women, or Nyonyas as they deling. Defendant's counsel argued account. Employment in the faith years, they would never get the are commonly called, speak Malay in that in negotiating for the purchase ing trades is much faller than in the chance. Then, very few of our Straits their homes and seldom attern word

hat, bas arrived in England albatan Min Beatzice Grimshair, the nove- of Playfellow Mr. Sinclair's experts commencing trades. As ships finish join the China born Chinese business

They are iterate, were unlikely to rely on anyone's off there is nothing to take their houses, because of their inability to

absence of 15 years in the South Ses Mr. Clark, of Norwich, who moved lands. She is sharmed with her judgment but their own. The sam of place. Aggaste unemployment speak and write Chinese. We had ignorant, superstitions and consers- £20,000 is one of the Isrgest arcants figures are, therefore, rapidly grow talk with friend of ours theve They are stumbling blocks to resolution that the executive beland home and means to return to

instructed to prees that the system it in two months' time. ever paid for a racehorse in New York. ing, and by midsummer will be from other day, and in the course and imbibe Malay ideas freely. Far of listening in by telephonista to

progress of our community, 70 per cent, to 75 per cent, unless of our conversation the question be it from us to cast & sine on them. obtain private information for tele She sistem that recently in New} цет orders can bring about the of our Straits Mr. George Berasal Shaw lectured employment of many man on the leaving school to join the European condemnation They

Chinese youth They deserve our pity rather than phone snbecribers be immediately Guines missionaries, by the aid of to the Students' Union of Birkbeck (commencement of new vessels.

but abolished," said the practice was a aroplanes, discovered ■"valley og ned in the Mixed Court at Shanghai, mercantile office cropped up. "Have the products of a system which pernicious one. The danger was aining 10,000 people, whose existens College on "The Failure of Educa

PROSPECTS FOR NEW CONTRACTS. they any chance of being the Mana in the past did not ace the ad accentuated recently at Norwich by had never been mispected, and who through the Italian authorites by tion." He asked how much aðúss-

gez after working, say, for 40 years ?" tion & man needed to be an effective The hope now is that with 16s 6d asked our friend. We replied in the vissbility of giving them any educa operators finding a notice on their were living at an altitude where it Mostra Maso and Fischer on behalf citizen? If he lived in a vilage all week off their costs of labour ship negative.

tion hence they grew up illiterate, switchboards to listen to any calls was imagined human-life could not of Mr. G. A Bens against General Eu for the Bar of is. 300 000. The Fendure. he needed was a very little knowledge builders and ship repairers will be in at the Straits Chinese know how to tive. We are very giad, however, that appeared to be of a private character When she return to New Futabat subject, and the defendant,

"But" said our friend, ignorant, superstitions and conserva- from a certain subscriber and if they

petition shows that plamu," an of law-sufficient to prevent hien tres position to quote definite

prices speak and write Chinese, there are the day when they had to be coated to report to the supervisor. This Miss Grimda mas to develop entered into an agrectbent to lose passing-aughter) a little manners, which will attract new orders There great opportunities for them in the and enough mental arithmetic to nare, at any rate, hopes for the fature Chinese firms, and if they prove to be to send their daughters to meant undertaking police wad for the vanilla plantation with the aid of Italian Company (registend-in na natīva belonging to cannibal tribes the Local Italise Consulate, as the able him to take change out, of soms in certain directions.

There are boueet and capable "there is every the girl. schools sin fell to

school is past,

and that all bcribers

Miss Howse mid that in the No Cambalian is rampant in New Sociate Adatica di Commento ed up to a pound (Laughter.) The repair jobs and work connected with possibility of their becoming partners the lines. It is now a universally no wich case a sabeeriber complained be: Graines," she reacted. Indostris and known as the 8.A.C.L) City can required all those qualif a reconditioning and surveye which in the business. tions with the exception of manzers, have held up owing to the abnormal

cognized fact that the strength of ass being charged for more calle than the Government is doing ita utos The capital of the comPRAY BE (Laughter.) A professional man was cost of the work, and probably a good

People depends very largely upon the he was making, and a serangement to abolish it. I am bound to admit

agreed upon," was, to have been not allowed to practies his professional of this work may now be put in mothers should persuade their moulding their character Hence, report any calls for hire that appeared from the tribes that est human. Back to put up ons End, is $750,000

The Straits Chinese fathers and on who is instrumental in was made that the operators should that the finest type of labour to $1,500 000. Of this, defendat, aged notil he had passed certain exswire-hand. There are niso caste

children to learn Chinese. If they the question of the education of wo- to be of a private character. The There are large tracts of country that labor d

harofore tions, unless he wae a literary nipended contracts on new work find it dificult, then the least that it cannot, bat deserve the for operator was not supposed to listen have never been penetrated by white and journalist, in which cass he which may be recommenced, because, can be expected of them if they carefal consideration. Though it is

men, and consequently the practice 300,000. nage in the sums of to the conversation, know nothing whatsoever. (Langht hotgk the 163 9d cut may not claim to have say Chinese hood in gratifying to note that all the girls'

The Postmaster General was unable goes on there unchecked.** A legislator should have a quite een iaz, prices down to an economic their veras, is to speak Chinese in the schools are full we still think that to comply with the request of the Asked as to how the cannibals ette knowledge of sconcuties, law, level, the desire of owners to avoid home, as the Chiness of Penang many of our gids do not get outinbred. It might be of advantated that prisoners who were takes capring the attentions of the Chinese mathematics, and political scienes having capital locked up in s pastrare doing." Though we know very any education t

union that the practice should be obtained human flech. Miss Grimshaw He should know something about the fuilt ship, and the desire of builders little- Chinese, we fully concur with of our maders may think stags to assist the Department in prav betal conflicts ware invarily newspapers in Shangha ocastitution of the Exopure and the to get their berths clear in the bore our friend in his statement that we are laying to much string that calls of becriber was eaten Tregitently they maderent is that an orphan gia, 12 yea other Braces; have a fairly large of securing other work, will be as Chinese, we should by to on this subject, but what we want to accurately recorded, Many muhec factors before they were killed. That was sent by her guardian he would be poor the wome if he at the cost of a momentary lose do not know how to read and of educating our le So long is knowledge of churches and secte, sad #trong inducement to carry on even speak our language at home, although point out is the absolute necesaty/ben were not awsze that their own, were many recipes for cooking hymen, a mil. as the end of the 1

new a little about scientific discovery So far as trash contract are con its it. Many people say that the our Tomen Tomas illiterate up to date. No man who had not got ceted, new types of ships are commajority of our Straits Chinese youths the qualifications should be allowing to the front to repinos old and think they have finished their educa into Parliament for a moment, Educonomical vessel. Immens tion as so as they leave school, and, cation should be begun very much rid have been made in the de do not consider is necessary to im later tisu at present and should never elprent of Diesel engines for the prove the "stop. What was really produced by propulsion of large ships, and

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the over educating of the upper else punen may find that even was intellectual imbecility. (Lang), costs are higher than in normal ter.) When they got intellectual in-it may pay them to m becility above and helpless ignorance cajital expenditure in orde

· below the final romit was 1914-1918, | grester régnomy in zayni (Load chrews)

when once the side in bui

SHOULD LEARN CHINESE.

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calls and flesh. Mina. Grimabaw said she had zeturned with her wa socused, the Fort Ofiz

sen stone ovens 6ft. long, also caald- to 23.60, and calls that had not been made.

and earthen pots;

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