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A VITAL PROBLEM.

NEED OF A NEW NATION IN

CHINA.

Mr. J. O. P. Bland, in "Time and Tide," has little sympathy with those who regard its "Intellectual Renalasance" as the clue to the truth in Chinese affairs. He writes:

BRITAIN'S HOSPITALS.

FUTURE OF VOLUNTARY

INSTITUTIONS.

Meetings of the British Medical with highly professional or techni- Association were mostly concerned cal matters, but the Section of Sociology, which met only' on one day, discussed a matter of the ut- most importance to the public,

“THE CHINA MAIL.

system of hospital accommodation | tion, and any schema which would

sa An integrate part of the medical services of the country. It ap peared to him, therefore, that the question under discussion really narrowed itself down to the quee tion of the relationship between these Poor Law Infirmaries and the former came under the control of voluntary hospitals if and when the the municipal authorities.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1927.

İNDIAN ON TOUR.

TOM · MANN.

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Mutual benefits to India and The Miners Federation has bean

the visit to, and travel in the lowing announcement was issued to Australia, alike should flow from meeting at Southport and the fol country of the Diwan Bahadur T.

the members- Rangachariar, who came to us as

"Mr. Tom Mann, president of the the accredited representative of the Indian Legislature to take part Minority Movement, now.. home

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A Vital Distinction, At present there were funda- mental differences between the The dominant fact in China concerned with local government or the social system, produced by the with the administration of hospi. these the first was that the Poor Confucian code of ethics., which tals. The chair was taken by Dr. Law infirmary had no out-patient

The out-patient de department. through countless generations has Kay Menzies, principal medical inculcated in the race principles of officer to the London County Coun- partment was an essential part of passive resistance, and imposed cil, and a discussion on the future

the general hospital, although it upon it a chronic burden of over relationship of municipalities to the tira difficulty, for it was there very was the source of much administra- population."

Neither Intellectual voluntary hospitals was opened by largely that, the selection of cases renaissances, political revolutions, Dr. Herbert Esson, senior ophthal for admission was carried out. nor pious reaolutions can alter the mic surgeon to Guy's Hospital. immemorial tradition of the race

Dr. Eason briefly described this | which decrees, with all the force of relationably as it had exlated in imperative Instinct and religious the past, and showed that the con- bellef, that a man's frat duty intact had been very slight, but over to provide as many male deacen-and

above the comparatively dants as possible for the comfort simple association he had describ- of his ancestors. The first resulted there had of recent years been of this social system that China

a great development both in the breeds four generations to Europe's activities of municipal institutions three; the next, following directly and, in London, of institutions con- from the first, is that the pullulat-trolled by the Metropolitan Asy- ing swarms of humanity thus pro lums Board, especially in the duced, are condemned to a struggle direction of treating special dis- for bare subsistence so fierce, and cases or special conditions in par- to a standard of living ao pitifully ticular institutions, thus impinging low, that for the musses the ever- on the province of the general hos- insistent and unsolvable problem is pitals. These developments, he that of keeping body and soul to-thought, were not without danger gether. The whole history of to the effective education of medi- China bears eloquent testimony to cal students in the schools attached this central fact. It must be evi- to voluntary hospitals. He felt dent that so long as such conditions that in all discussions as to the exist, the mental attitude of the future we must, in the interests New China, and the affect of its both of medical education and of Intellectual Renaissances, are of no the public, insist that no arrange more importance than the twitter-ments will be approved which will ings of sparrows on the housetops. interfere with the free access of all The lesson to be learned from the types, whether serious or trivial, to present paroxysm of unrest and the voluntary hospitals with medi- disorder is a leason, already writ cal schools. large in the annals of the

race, Dr. Enson then gave a list, from namely, that under a social system his point of view very formidable, which produces these results, only of the conditions already dealt the strong hand of despotic with in hospitals or institutiona authority can hold in check the provided by municipalities or other lawless minority, to whom disorder

He included the public bodies. means opportunities of rising and notifiable infectious diseases, and it remaining above the hunger-line. was not quite clear whether he The numbers, and activities of the desired auch cases to be received bandits and freebooters have al into general hospitals, nor was it ways increased, as they are doing mentioned that for years medical to-day, in the absence of an effec-students had received their train- tive central authority, raling ruth-ing in infectious diseases in the lessly in the Oriental manner; municipal hospitals organised for The peasants, plundered and the reception of such cases." driven from their ruined homes,

especially to those who are directly two types of Institution, and of mat the board to whom the hospital in the recent Canberra colebrations, from China, promises to come to the]]

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POLICY. thought, had not been sufficiently explored. The reason for this neglect probably lay in the nature of the institutions themselves, as had been a mere adjunct of the too often in the past the hospital workhouse. It was inadequately staffed with trained nurses, and the medical and surgical work had been left to partitime man who nover

Consequently they, had Bays "The West Australian," which conference, bringing with him

continuea:-The people "of this flaming banner from the All-China belonged. no opportunities of suggesting incontinent and of the great sub- Labour Federation, which claims to provemente, and had a natural

though they be by comparatively through the Hong Kong-Canton tendency to lose interest in ad- continent of Asia, separated only have helped the British miners ministration.

narrow seas, know little of each strike to shake the foundations of

British Imperialism."! presumption is it would be if there discovered the appearance of Mr. other. Were it otherwise, as the No one, howevor, seems to have

visits by their representative men, go, and, in any case, had he gone, were more frequent interchanges of Tom Mann, who apparently did not they might easily be more mutually he would not have received much of helpful. As it is, both peoples, a welcome, because the Conference speaking of them in the mass, live] would not have anything to do with in almost abysmal ignorance of Russia, and turned down the Com-have your HAIR each other's national character and munists one again very hard. There done that makes it national aspiratione, are little was proposal from Scotland call-

attractive. acquainted with their respective ing on the federation to work and cultures or their varying political vote in favour of Communist partyi and other problems, and deny them- afiliation to the Labour party. The aelves the economic advantages, Communists had circularised the experts in Bobbing, which a faster and fuller develop delegates, and had done much pro- Shingling and Wav- ment of reciprocal trade would paganda with the object of gaining ing.

There was no need for these faults to be perpetuated, and in they had already been eliminated, the Glasgow Poor Law Institution

1. 3. M.Taylor of Gnsiph, Preddent of G. BL.A. 1926-27. 1. 1.2. Walsh, Gers- ST. N. Clayton, Chairman of Prairie Division, 4. W Indes, Chaffin Calgary

Enthusiasm displayed over the being considered an indication of

optimistic outlook for the West as the Importance of the Prairie Prov a manufacturing region, was an out- inces from a commercial standpoint standing feature of the annus! genera! alone, and a recognition on the part meeting of the Canadian Manufac of Canadian Manufacturing of the turers Association held in Calgary at progress of the West. the Canadian Pacific Hotel Palliser A large number of members, again June 2 to 8. The Association being displayed their interest in the scenic the most powerful organization of its wonders of the Canadian Rockies kind in Canada, held as in past years, for a large party made a post-conven- the attention of the commercial tion journey westward from Calgary interests of the entire Dominion | visiting Banff, Lake Louise and ather during their session in the West, famous resorts in the Rookies.

The convention was noteworthy The above officers who guided the this year in that it was the first time association throughout the year, were for the Association to meet in the largely responsible for the complete Province of Alberta. Much signif- success of the annual gathering” this cance is placed upon this fact, it|year.

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bring them. Mr. Rangacharlar the support of the federation. The -CAMPBELL MOORE was not far out when, speaking in Labour Party Conference at Liver- Perth on a Friday evening, he sug-pool three years ago decided that 19, Queen's Road C. gested that there existed in Aus- the Communists could not be affiliat tralia a misconception of India ed, and that no delegates from Com- and her people a misconception munist organisations could attend & born of Australians coming in Labour party conference. contact only with her coolie class, executive of the party have decided which tended to blind our people the question cannot be re-opened at that, under the Standing Orders, to India's real greatness. But if Blackpool this year, and no resolu- misconceptions of India and Intions relating to it were placed on dians obtain, as largely they do, in the agenda. Scotland, South Australla, they are as prevalent Wales, Lancashire and Notts were among those Indians who give this among the districts which it is country a thought at all, as to understood support the affiliation of Australia and the Australians. the Communists. The resolution of Especially is this the case in their | Scotland was defeated by a Interpretation of our White Aus- large majority. It is understood tralia policy. Even our distin- that South Wales did not carry their guished vialtor, when he came to support to the point of voting, the Commonwealth. entertained Mr. Tom Mann, however, (saya) misconceptions as to the true in the London correspondent of the wardness of that policy. He was "Dally News," Shanghai) is to ap- DODWELL & CO. LTD. at any rate disposed to regard it pear at Battersea, prasumably under as a rock of offence and as connot- Mr. Saklatvala's suspices, as ing an attitude on our part of racial following paragraph. tells us:~~ exclusiveness and of an unwarrant- ed assumption by Australians of a racial superiority,

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"Flaming crimson banners, scrawled over with revolutionary sentiments in embroidered Chinese Mr. Rangachariar has, however, characters, will decorate the Bat- tersen Town Hall on August 27 and left our shores better informed 28, when Tom Mann will report on than when he came to them. While his visit to China and fraternisation this is not to say that the White with the Kuomintang troops. The Australia, policy pleases him, we banners were presented by Chinese have his own words for saying that trade unions and military bodies to "he appreciated the fact that it was the National Minority Movement. not dictated by racial or colour At that organisation's annual na- That is something,tional conference they will be dis- prejudice."

and not a little, gained by the played and a thousand British Red Diwan's visit, for being, as he is, delegates from London and pro- both politician and publiclat, he vinces will ceremonially accept may be trusted, in view of his pro- these strange gifta."

Aus- fessions of friendliness to tralia, to do much to remove those wrong impressions of his country-i men, which he, himself, so recently shared as to the origin and pur- pose of our alien immigration laws.

Harrison William

Moore,

of

and the desperate victims of the military press gangs, are finally He then asked why this question driven by necessity into the ranks had suddenly developed such a high of the lawless.

importance. He stated his belief The collective intelligence of the that the answer to that question my race must be led to perceive that in the avowed intention of the most of its discontents and disas-present Minister of Health to bring ters are the unavoidable conse- before Parliament a proposal for quences of their present aocial some measure of Poor Law reform. system. Educate and alter the He agreed that in the interests of state of mind which regards with co-ordination and improvement of equanimity an infant mortality of the public health service the pro- 85 per cent.: convince Young China posed transfer of the infirmaries to The Poor Law infirmary had no and the standard of medicine, sur that there is no great virtue in the municipalities would be pro

choice in this matter and therefore gery, and nursing raised to the being a grandfather at forty; and ductive of great benefit, and that no problem of selection. Many level of that of the voluntary hos-

It is well that our fellow British imply inferiority, and it must re- What had been done in the way will then be prepared for this could be stated without the voluntary hospitals feared that pitals.

eitizens of India should learn what main occasion for regret that that the birth of a new Chinese nation slightest reflection on the manner they would be squeezed out of exls- Glasgow could be accomplished in

in terms which, however uninten- the chief cause of all its suffering carried out their duties in the comparatively, unlimited funds at not was probably due to the un-Melbourne, in one of his recent tional, do carry at least a sugges really new, because freed from in which boards of guardians have tence if the municipalities, with other places. The fact that it had is a fact, that as Professor Sir policy ever came to be expressed and and unrest, the grime of famine. past.

their disposal, were to take over satisfactory nature of Poor Law lectures in Chicago admirably puttion of racial narrowness

The parish was an ares it, "the White Australia policy was

racial exclusiveness. Nothing had been more marked the Infirmaries. He was not of areas.

Mr. Rangachariar must have In recent years than the improve that opinion, nor did he believe that had long outgrown its useful part of an economic policy, which ment in the standard of medical that the Minister of Health or any-ness.-"Manchester Guardian."

had in view the maintenance of discovered, indeed he has confess and surgical services in Poor Law one else had any desire to destroy

the standard of living from what-ed as much, that, so far from there antipathetic feeling institutions. Their present ad- the general hospitals. He believed

ever quarter menaced," and that being any ministration, however, auffered they would survive the change; if

CHILDREN LIKE CHAMBER- "the fact that Asiatic standards among Australians towards his from two grave defects: the first not the State or the municipality

LAIN'S PAIN BALM. were low, that Asia was geographi-country and his compatriots, there of these was the stigma of pau-of a system that was peculiarly

For "black and blue" bruises, cally nearest, that labour had been exists a desire for the promotion the of the completest_amity between perism, the second was that Poor would swallow up the last remnant sprains of wrists and ankles, an Asiatic export and that Law infirmaries had to be worked adapted to the British genius and

strains of cords and muscles, stub-populations in India, China, and the two peoples. The spirit of co- in watertight William D. Dahres, 25 years old, whence difficulties arose with re-

compartments, had been the foundation both of bed toes, cuts, burns and other Japan were dense and were be operation which he rightly declared

British medicine and British

mishaps of childhood, Chamber-lieved to be seeking an outlet in should be the spirit behind the de- Shanghai tobacco merchant, was gard to the admission of patients. nursing.

lain's Pain Balm always gives re- new lands bad rather concentrated velopment of trade relations be Ained $25 in American Commis Boards of guardians were limited to Defect in Poor Law Hospitals. lief. Does just as much for older attention upon Asia.” The White tween Australia and India, is here, sioner Nelson E. Lurton's Court, making provision for persons in Mr. M. A. Reynard, chief execu- people too. Eases their rheumatic Australia policy is not and never as it is there, and only needs to Shanghai, when he was tried on a their own parish. The administrative officer of the Glasgow Parish paint, backaches and neuralgis, was intended to be offensive or to be quickened by a reciprocal ex- charge of assaulting two employes tion of these infirmaries by the Council and District Board of Con- Just rub it on the sore spots...It in the Carlton cafe after a dispute municipality would

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Column.) Majar C. P. Holcomb con- ducted the prosecution, while' At- torney Sidney A. Moss appeared for the defence.

TORE SHIRT OFF.

ROW OVER 10 CENTS CHANGE.

According to the version given the Court by Major Holcomb, and two Chinese witnesses, Dahma, sitting with two friends in the dance-hall on August 12, bought a dance ticket for 50 cents, protest- ing when he said the change brought back was 10 cents short, Demanding to see Manager' Al Israel, he went down to the cashier's office, but the manager was absent. Then, according to| the story, Dahms' went to the general office, tore the shirt off the cashier, and beat him up before be was overpowered by other em~| ployes. Joseph Hawkins, assistant manager, and Y. K. Hung, a chit boy, corroborated this story, to- gether with the complaining cashier.

Dahms on the stand; however, declared he had merely knocked at the cashier's desk on his way out, but receiving no response, had en- tered and, to defend himself against a threatened attack, had raised his hand. Then, he said, somebody threw a book at him, which glanced off his head and hit Chee, the cashier. This, the complainant denied.

regiving his decision, Mr.

Lurton declared that the defendant had no right to enter a private. office at 12.80 o'clock 'in' the morii- ing and that he was puzzled over the statement that the Chinese had attempted to assault Dahms..

"In my ten years in China," zaid Mr. Lurton, "I have noticed that the Chinese are a peaceful people, as far as they individually are con- cerned with foreigners. It does not seem plausible that this frail Chinese would have attacked Dabms. He therefore fined him for disorderly conduct, the fine being paid immediately afterward.

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